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For those of you who are interested in learning more about bees and beekeeping can I draw your attention to two courses and a website which may be of interest to you.
Beginners' Course

This starts with three evening sessions (7:00 to 9:00) at the Colliton Club in Dorchester. These sessions will be held on Tuesdays March 11th, March 18th and March 25th.
There will then be three sessions on Sunday afternoons at the Association Apiary at Stinsford (just to the East of Dorchester) at 2:00.
The cost of the course is £60. At the end of it you will have learned a lot about bees, have opened a hive and handled bees. This is an excellent way to prepare you for keeping bees.

Bee Behaviour Course
This course consists of six sessions on Monday evenings at the Colliton Club in Dorchester. These sessions will be held on Mondays 20th January, 27th January, 3rd February, 10th February, 17th February and the 24th February. The course will be run by Lesley Gasson and cost just £60. The course will be based on the BBKA Module 6 exam so the course details can be found here. To see the other exams the BBKA offer have a look here.This prepares you for the exam but there is no pressure to take the exam - just do the course to learn more about these fascinating insects.

The website I wish to draw your attention to is the BeeInfo area of our own web site. This is growing rapidly and this is reflected in increased visitor numbers - and the more visitors we get the more information I can put up there.

And just a reminder - membership fees are due.

And the Christmas Social is on 2nd December at the Colliton Club.

Apologies for talking about Christmas before we are even in November but I know how social calendars fill up at this time of year. The reason for drawing it to your attention is to let you know that Dorchester and Weymouth Beekeepers will be holding their Christmas Event.

Our Christmas Social will be on December 2nd from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the Colliton Club in Dorchester. This year there will be a light hearted quiz and sausage and chips - including a vegetarian option.

As I said the weather is not so good now and the nights are drawing in and BeeInfo continues to grow as I learn more. The latests page to be added is on Laying Workers. If you have them then it is not good but go the BeeInfo page to see how to find out if you have it and what you can try to get over it.

And finally can I remind you that if you have not yet renewed your membership of the Dorchester and Weymouth Beekeepers then that is now due.

This week we received the bad news that Bee Equipment Ltd had gone into liquidation.

This week we received the good news that Hagen's Bees has acquired the intellectual rights and the remaining stock. To be honest I had not heard of them but I have had a look at the website and they look like one to watch.

Now that the weather has closed in and the nights are longer I am able to put some more time into the BeeInfo section of this website. I have added a page on the bee brush and the hive tool. The website is becoming a lot more popular and as a result we have had technical issues resulting in a slower load time. We have taken steps to improve this and hopefully the service is back up to the standard we expect.

The aim with BeeInfo is to present information for the beekeeper in a concise form. If there are any observations , positive or negative, then do let me know on my usual email dorchweybkaweb@gmail.com

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