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SBA/COLOSS Survey 2023
Dear SBA Member/Local Beekeeping Association Member,
Following earlier surveys of members carried out on behalf of the Scottish Beekeepers' Association and reported on in ``The Scottish Beekeeper'' and elsewhere, we are repeating the exercise in 2023. This is our 16th year of the survey! The responses provide a valuable picture of beekeeping in Scotland, with a strong focus on colony losses and colony management practice. Data from this survey will also contribute, in anonymised form, to our annual data return to the COLOSS group's international database used to study colony losses and potential risk factors for colony loss. This provides valuable information on colony losses in many different countries.
We are asking for your participation in the survey online, which we have found to be a fast and efficient way to carry out the survey. We very much hope that you will take a few minutes to fill in the responses. There are a few questions for non-beekeepers and relatively new beekeepers, as well as more questions for established beekeepers in Scotland. If you have the relevant information to hand, the full survey (consisting of 15 short question groups) should take no more than about 10 to 15 minutes. It is possible to re-visit earlier questions if you need to do that, using the options at the foot of the page.
A diagram is included below, which may be helpful in completing the colony loss questions.
You will be given an opportunity to provide us with your contact details, but if you choose not to do so, there is no way in which the survey organisers can link you with the responses you have given.
If you supply your contact details, and can submit your answers to the questions before Friday June 23rd, then your name will be entered into a prize draw for a £50 Gift Voucher for Beekeeping Equipment kindly supplied by Thornes of Wragby and Newburgh.
To participate, please click on the link below. Thank you very much for your time.
Follow the link to do the survey:
https://outreach.mathstat.strath.ac.uk/outreach/buzz/index.php/584122?newtest=Y&lang=en
Alison Gray (Survey Organiser),
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
My First Year as a Bee Advisor
Lorraine Johnston, SRUC
Wednesday 1st March at 7.30pm
We are looking forward to hosting Lorraine Johnston on Wednesday the 1st of March. Lorraine will be sharing with us her experiences and activities over the last year in her new role as the SRUC’s Bee Advisor and as part of the Scottish Government’s Bee Health team.
Lorraine will be a familiar face to many Scottish beekeepers, whether that’s as Chair of the South of Scotland Beekeepers’ Association, as the founder of Annan Academy’s Bee Club or at the many beekeeping events and local association talks across the country.
To register for this free webinar please visit
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3749764984776986896
The Nest of a Honey Bee
Professor Jürgen Tautz
Wednesday 5th April at 7.30pm
We are looking forward to welcoming back Professor Jürgen Tautz as the final guest lecture of our winter webinar series. Prof Tautz will be joining us online on Wednesday the 5th of April to talk about the nest of the honey bee.
Prof Tautz is a behavioural scientist, socio-biologist and bee expert. He is Professor of the Biocentre at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg, Germany and founder and chair of its BEE research group. He is also the author of several popular science books on bees and holder of the Communicator Award of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – German Research Foundation).
To register for this free webinar please visit
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6597528688019154189