The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) is calling on the public to help fight a major threat to honey bees and other pollinators – Asian hornets.  Numbers of the destructive insect are rising rapidly this summer and more have been detected in the UK this year than in the previous six years…

June 2023 Gilbert White’s House and Gardens has just become the first institutional member of the British Beekeepers’ Association for 80 years.  Rev. Gilbert White lived mostly in the Hampshire village of Selborne from 1720 to 1793. Also a keen gardener, he began to study nature by close observation –…

Friday 21 October 2022  Happy National Honey Day! BBKA President Anne Rowberry went to London yesterday and presented a jar of honey to the King.  She presented herself to security at the side entrance to Buckingham Palace and asked if she could take her jar of honey in? After explaining…

Statement from the British Beekeepers’ Association President, Anne Rowberry, on banned bee-killing pesticides: “The BBKA is totally opposed to the use of this and similar pesticides due to their effect on honeybees and other pollinators, and the wider environment. The UK government has yet again issued a licence for the…

Tuesday 18th October 2022  The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) is celebrating the first National Honey Day on Friday 21st October when we are encouraging people to buy a jar of local honey, produced by bees here in the UK.  Not only do we want to ensure people are aware of…