THE ESSEX BEEKEEPER
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Monthly Magazine of the Essex Beekeepers’ Association
www.ebka.org Furthering the Craft of Beekeeping in Essex Registered Charity number 1031419 Issue No. 646 October 2018
24 Divisional Meetings around the County WHO’S WHO & HOW TO CONTACT THEM
President of EBKA Pat Allen Hon CLM EBKA Trustees:
Meetings in October: Ian Nichols Chairman: 17 Dyers Hall Road, Leytonstone, London E11 4AD email [email protected] tel. 0208 558 4733 / 07980 299 638 Secretary: Thursday Asian Hornet with Andrew Durham. Kings 4 Oct Harlow [Position Vacant] Church, Red Willow, Harlow CM19 5PA 8.00pm Tom Keeper Treasurer: Kingfishers, 2 Chandlers, Burnham-on-Crouch CM0 8NY email [email protected] tel: 07722 454 974 / 01621 784 626 Thursday Rose Hives - Matt Broughton. Chadwick Hall, Stuart Mitson [email protected] Braintree 4 Oct Romford 8.00pm Main Road, Gidea Park RM2 5EL Jan Tutton [email protected] Chelmsford Tony Rand [email protected] Colchester Kate Tuerena [email protected] Dengie Hundred & Maldon Thursday Saffron The Flow Hive - Rita Wilson. Great Dunmow 11 Oct Don McHale [email protected] Epping Forest 7.30pm Walden Day Centre CM6 1EQ Nick Holmes [email protected] Harlow Sunday Paul Wiltshire [email protected] Romford Apple Day, Cressing Temple Barns, Witham 14 Oct Braintree Vanessa Wilkinson [email protected] Saffron Walden 10am - Road, Cressing CM77 8PD 4.00pm Jean Smye [email protected] Southend Divisional Contacts: Monday The Work of the NBU - The Link, Rainsford 15 Oct Chelmsford Braintree: Jan French 07725 166 609 Chelmsford: James Curtis 07940 757 831 7.30pm Road, Chelmsford CM1 2XB Colchester: Morag Chase 01206 522 576 D.H. & Maldon: Carlie Mayes 07979 862 952 Thursday Epping Microscopy Evening - have your bees Harlow: Nick Holmes 07730 735 752 Epping Forest: Robin Harman 07971 237 312 18 Oct checked for nosema & view pollen. Chingford Saffron Walden: Vanessa Wilkinson 01799 542 337 Romford: Pat Allen 01708 220 897 7.30pm Forest Horticultural Hall. Southend: Pat Holden 01702 477 592 Wed Veolia - Consideration of the environment at EBKA Education Secretary: Jane Ridler Old Barn House, 36 Walden Road, 24 Oct Southend the large waste management site at Pitsea. W I Sewards End, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 2LF 7.30pm Hall, Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh SS6 7ED 01799 218 023 [email protected] EBKA Examinations Secretary: Pat Allen 8 Franks Cottages, St Mary’s Lane, Thursday Upminster, Essex RM14 3NU 25 Oct Colchester Tba 01708 220 897 [email protected] 7.30pm The Essex Beekeeper Magazine:
Meetings in November: Editor: David Smye email: [email protected] tel. 07710 197 078 Advertising: Jean Smye email: [email protected] tel. 07731 856 361 Thursday Journey from beekeeper to bee farmer - Mailing Secretary: Michael Elliott email: [email protected] 1 Nov Romford Michael Coe. Chadwick Hall, Main Road, Printed by Streamset, 12 Rose Way, Purdeys Industrial Estate, Rochford, Essex SS4 1LY 8.00pm Gidea Park RM2 5EL Web site: Nick Holmes email: [email protected]
Thursday BeeBee Wraps. Kings Church, Red Willow, 1 Nov Harlow Regional Bee Inspectors for EBKA Region: 8.00pm Harlow CM19 5PA Epping Forest and Romford Divisions (excluding Brentwood):
Peter Folge [email protected] tel. 07775 119 433 Saturday COUNTY Annual Conference hosted by Braintree 3 Nov Division. Great Leighs Racecourse, All other Divisions: Keith Morgan [email protected] tel. 01485 520 838 or 07919 004 215 10 - 4pm EVENT Chelmsford CM3 1QP
2 23 Hornet mimic hoverfly Meetings in November: Cont’d Volucella zonaria Wed Saffron Making cosmetics with bee products, Andrea Norton - Southend Division 7 Nov including soap making demo - Sara Robb. 7.30pm Walden Sewards End Hall CB10 2LG Saw this at Pitsea out apiary on Sunday 19th August, it came and landed on Thursday Epping 15 Nov Tba our hive as we were packing away. It was huge! Managed to get a decent 7.30pm Forest photo and found out it is a hornet mimic hoverfly. Monday Beekeeping around the World. The Link, 19 Nov Chelmsford At almost 2cm long, the hornet Rainsford Road, Chelmsford CM1 2XB mimic hoverfly (also known as the 7.30pm 'belted hoverfly') is the largest Wed Divisional AGM - W I Hall, Bellingham Lane, 28 Nov Southend hoverfly species in the UK. Rayleigh SS6 7ED 7.30pm As its name suggests, it is an excellent mimic of the hornet, but Friday Soap making - talk and demonstration - Dr 30 Nov Braintree Sara Robb. White Notley Village Hall CM8 is harmless to humans. Only a 8.00pm 1RH very rare visitor to the country up to the 1940s, it has become more Would each Division kindly ensure that their meeting details - topic, venue and common in Southern England in time are notified to the editor at [email protected] by the 4th of the month recent years, and is still spreading so that a comprehensive list is available to all members. northwards, perhaps as a result of climate change. It is particularly prevalent in urban areas. The adults are migratory and the larvae In this issue: live inside wasps' nests. Photograph from Andrea Norton - Southend Division Meeting Dates . . . . . 2/3 How to identify Conference details . . . . . 4
The hornet mimic hoverfly is mainly orangey-yellow on the abdomen, with EBKA Annual Honey Show - Report. . . 5 dark bands and a dark brown thorax. It is our largest hoverfly. It can be EBKA Annual Honey Show Results . . 6 - 9 distinguished from the European Hornet by its much larger eyes, broader body and the lack of a sting. Annual Honey Show in pictures. . . 10 - 12 More Results . . . . . 13 - 18 Distribution Mainly in the South of England, but spreading northwards A year in the life of Braintree Division . . 19 - probably due to climate changes. Asian Hornets in Cornwall & Hull . .. 21 Hornet Mimic Hoverfly . . . . 22 Association Contact details . . . 23 Who’s mimicking who here then?
22 3 EBKA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018 Asian Hornet nest in Fowey found and destroyed
September 7 2018 - National Bee Unit ‘Bees and Wellbeeing’ The theme of our conference is the ways in which bees enrich our lives and An Asian Hornet nest has been found in Fowey in Cornwall and destroyed by make a difference to our world. Bees promote biodiversity by providing bee inspectors. essential pollination for a wide range of crops. Honey is becoming a It was on Friday 31st August a beekeeper in the Fowey area found 2 Asian powerful new weapon in the battle against hospital-acquired infections. Hornets in a trap he'd set up near his beehives. They were positively Being around bees can raise a person’s self-esteem and the educational identified by the Non Native Species Secretariat and a surveillance zone was benefits are now being recognised. set up on Tuesday (Sept 4). Killing traps and feeding traps with meat and Let’s learn more from our three speakers. sweet baits were deployed and there was a lot of hornet activity around them. By timing their visits back to the bait, inspectors from the National Bee Speakers: Unit were able to track them back to their nest. Bunny Campione, Daws Hall Trust Many of you will know Bunny from the Antiques Roadshow, The latest nest found on Jersey but you may not be aware that she is a fellow beekeeper. (opposite)
Dr Rowena Jenkins, Swansea University Medical The nest was detected on School, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Thursday September 6, and Diseases. Rowena is a lecturer in microbiology. destroyed in the evening, when the hornets would have returned Chris Newenham, Managing Director, Wilkin & Sons Ltd to the nest, by using CO2 gas to Chris will be speaking about the importance of bees as pollinators and the carry an active ingredient called collaboration between beekeepers and agriculturists. bendiocarb. The nest was Date and venue: Payment: removed the next day at 0700.
Saturday 3rd November 2018 By cheque payable to: It is described as a small nest, about the size of a child's football, and was EBKA Braintree Division. situated about 1 metre from the ground in a bramble patch. 10 - 4pm Send to: Neil Reeve, Hilly Ley, High Genetic analysis is being carried out to see if the hornets are from Europe or Chelmsford City Racecourse Easter, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4QZ a new incursion brought in on goods from China for example. Genetic tests Great Leighs, CM3 1QP BACS Transfer: have shown that the Tetbury and Woolacombe nests in 2017 were two separate incursions from France. Sort code 20-97-40 Account number Tickets £25 80089230 Trapping advice • Registration and view trade Reference EBKA Conference. stands from 9am At the moment, Defra is recommending that Monitoring traps are put out by Send an email to beekeepers in all areas of the country. [email protected] • Three excellent speakers Once an Asian Hornet has been positively identified in an area then KILL • Coffee and Danish pastries on to advise transfer has been made and you will receive an e-ticket by return. traps should be used. This is in the expectation that if Asian Hornets are in arrival. Cash: the area then they will be trapped and identified. • Buffet lunch Cash to Braintree Committee members The by-catch in these traps will be small compared to the damage caused to • Afternoon tea and cakes when visiting Divisional meetings honey bees by the Asian Hornets if the nests are not found.
• Raffle and trade stands (a ticket will be given immediately) STOP PRESS: Further sightings in Liskeard and Hull.
4 21 different queen introduction cages we were able to see the advantages and 131st ANNUAL ESSEX disadvantages of the various methods and everyone now understands when to use a nuc or a mini-nuc such as an Apidea. We rounded off the meeting HONEY SHOW with a delicious BBQ in the sunshine – it was a truly wonderful event. Show Secretary’s Our June apiary meeting was held at Cressing Temple Barns. Members were divided into three groups and we rotated between hive inspection and Report guided tours of the gardens and barns. This was another memorable meeting. Last year we held a similar event at Layer Marney Tower as the owners are beekeepers and members of Braintree Division.
Our members are spread across a wide area and our other apiary meetings in 2018 were held in Felsted, Great Totham, Chignal St James and at our divisional apiary in Coney Green. Each apiary meeting enabled members to view a range of hives, to solve different problems and the tea and cakes afterwards provided a good opportunity for further discussion. Another memorable Essex Show at Orsett on 1st September. As we move inside for the winter we have more interesting meetings The sun was shining, the general public were out in force and so were the planned. In November, Dr Sara Robb will be showing us how to make Essex Beekeepers. We would like to express our gratitude you to all our honey soap and everyone will take home a sample. December is Braintree’s Volunteers, over 55 of you, who manned our Marquee and presented our Honey Show and while judging takes place, we will make origami Xmas Show in true style. Although this is only a 1 day Show there were also plenty decorations guided by a Japanese expert in the craft. This is our Xmas of other events going on in the showground which always helps to draw in Social and friends and family are welcome as long as they join in - last year the crowds. the special activity was willow weaving to make a Xmas wreath. And, we must not forget that we’re hosting the EBKA Annual Conference in Braintree Division did extremely well supplying a thirsty band of volunteers November and the other roles that come with it such as running the EBKA with refreshments as well as presenting a lovely lunch - there was plenty for AGM and catering for the County Honey Show. So we’re having a busy everyone. Well done to their organisers and ladies in the kitchen area. 2018. This was our biggest show for some years; with 80 exhibitors entering 350 The Committee is now thinking of our 2019 programme and there is no exhibits - there was definitely plenty to see. Well done to everyone. A new shortage of volunteers to hold apiary meetings and we have some interest- innovation - with every exhibitor being given a mark towards their Division’s ing speakers lined up. Members have requested a visit to a honey grand total for entering - made it unsure who was going to win the production facility to watch the bottling process and we have asked if one of President’s Cup. Well done Harlow for coming out on top. our bee-farmers can host this. We are also negotiating a visit to the apiary at Paycocke’s House and Garden in Coggeshall which is run by the National This year sees the Centenary of 3 of our Divisions: Chelmsford, Saffron Trust (a Group Member of Braintree Division). Walden & Epping Forest. To celebrate the occasion a special display was set up in the marquee, manned by Chelmsford members, showing how 2019 is going to be another good year for Braintree Division. beekeeping has evolved over the years.
There is always a lot of work involved in setting up the show and well done to all those involved – a terrific job. This was helped by well organised, 30lb Honey Buckets for Sale £2.00 each accommodating and helpful showground management. Again, they were
Telephone: 01279 730228 extremely happy with the marquee and display and are encouraging us to E.Mail: [email protected] return again next year – as this was a very successful day.
Location: Hatfield Heath, Essex - Collection only Pauline Tidmas 20 5 A year in the life of Braintree Division EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS 1st September 2018 Jan French / Clive de Bruyn Orsett Showground, Thurrock At Braintree we hold all our summer meetings at different members’ apiaries Class Description Position Winner Division – and what a great way to enhance our skills and to visit some interesting One section of places. We are coming to the end of the season and have had some 1 comb honey (Gift) VHC Paul Abbott Southend fantastic venues and hospitality.
1st Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest Our August meeting was hosted 2nd James Mc Neill Romford by two of our bee-farmers, John One jar of 3rd David Tidmas Harlow 2 clear honey Barlow and Mick Lovell, also VHC Michael J Barke Harlow (Gift) present were Clive de Bruyn HC Victoria Tidmas Harlow and Mike Coe of Great Tilkey C Pat Allen/Pauline Tidmas Romford/Harlow Honey.
One jar of 1st James McNeill Romford The theme of the meeting was 3 Crystallised honey 2nd Paul F Abbott Southend queen introduction and we learnt (Gift) VHC Pat Allen Romford from the experts. The meeting One pair of comb was held at John and Mick’s 4 2nd Danny Nicholl Harlow honey sections queen rearing apiary in 1st Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest Wethersfield and Clive provided 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow 10 queens. Clive opened the meeting with a brief introduction One frame of 3rd Gary Stapleton Southend 5 on the 10 queens provided, Extractable honey VHC Dr A K Yeats Saffron Walden showing the different types of HC Alicia Winham D H & Maldon Michael Coe, Mick Lovell and John Barlow travelling cage and how to make C Sabine Barke Harlow at the Queen Introduction demonstration the fondant plugs using honey 1st Pauline Tidmas Harlow Photograph by Clive de Bruyn and icing sugar. 2nd Alexandra Tidmas Harlow This was followed by hands-on experience of queen introduction using Two jars of light 3rd Victoria Tidmas Harlow 6 different techniques – for example, John often uses newspaper at the end of clear honey VHC David Tidmas Harlow the cage held in place with an elastic band rather than a plug of fondant. HC Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest C Sue Frazer Harlow Thirty members attended plus visitors from Chelmsford and Saffron Walden 1st Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest divisions. We divided into two groups and Mick and John showed us their preferred method of queen introduction. Four queenless nucs had been set 2nd Linda Yeats Saffron Walden up and we also used full sized colonies to enable members to find and Two jars of 3rd Pauline Tidmas Harlow 7 medium clear dispatch the queens. Some queens were in travel cages with their workers Harlow honey VHC Alexandra Tidmas and we learnt how to transfer the queen to an introduction cage, whereas HC David Tidmas Harlow others were alone in their introduction cages and this was a much more C Pam Hughes Chelmsford straight forward procedure.
1st Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest Two jars of Members were given the opportunity to clip, mark and introduce queens 8 dark clear hoey 2nd Roy Hardwicke Chelmsford which is something that many have never attempted. Through the use of division 6 19
EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS
1st September 2018
Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Division
Romford
Harlow Braintree Harlow Romford Harlow Harlow Romford Romford Southend Epping Forest
Class Description Position Winner Division
1st Paul F Abbott Southend Two jars of crystallised 3rd Filippo Negri Romford
Winner 9 honey, natural VHC Ted Gradosielski Epping Forest
Norman J J Norman set
HowardGreen VictoriaTidmas Negri Filippo Barke J Michal Barke J Michael McNeill James McNeill James Stapleton Gary McDonald Gradosielski Ted
Sabine Barke Sabine HC Elisaveta Stefani Romford
Two jars of 1st James McNeill Romford crystallised 10 2nd Paul F Abbott Southend honey, Soft
set HC Pat Allen Romford
1st Janet French Braintree
One plastic con-
2nd Linda Yeats Saffron Walden
tainer of cut
11a For comb honey, not 3rd Carlie Mayes D H & Maldon
set or crystallised VHC Gary Stapleton Southend
One plastic contain- 11b er of Crystallised cut No entries and/or awards comb honey
Two jars of 1st Gary Stapleton Southend
Novice gaining highest total number of points number total highest gaining Novice in award to 19 an classes 21 and of honey jars clear Twelve mead bottle sweet of Best bottle of metheglin Best bottle of melomel Best mead bottle dry of Best classes in candles points Most the show in exhibit Best classes the Novice in Best Entry Outstanding Biscuits, sandwich and sandwich fudge Biscuits, 12
chunk honey
1st Lorna Pattle Romford
21
One cake of bees-
-
8 2nd Jim McNeill Romford
38 14 15
19 wax 425gm -
1 to 1 41
44 & 45 & 44 43 & 42 36 & 35
Classes 13 482gm 3rd Jan French Braintree 23, 23, 24, 29 & 25mm min thick- ness HC Carol Stapleton Southend
C Margaret Clay Chelmsford
1st Filippo Negri Romford
One bottle of 14 2nd Paul F Abbott Southend
sweet mead
Commendation VHC Carlie Mayes D H & Maldon
’ ’
Award
1st Jim McNeill Romford One bottle of 15 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow
dry mead
Devall Award Devall Cup Chronicle Essex Wine Circle Chelmsford Trophy Marconi Jubilee Shield Gunn Alf Wine Shield Walden Taylor A Mazer G Horton Award Archie Ribbon B.B.K.A.Blue Show ticket Honey National Judges Honey W.B.C.Cup C Filippo Negri Romford 18 7
EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS
1st September 2018
Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Division
Forest Forest Forest
Braintree Southend Romford Epping Romford Romford Epping Romford Epping Romford
Class Description Position Winner Division
Harlow
Two jars of light clear 16 1st Carol Sissons Harlow honey
(Novice) Winner
Paul F Abbott F Paul McNeill James Gradosielski Ted Richardson Susan McNeill James Gradosielski Ted McNeill James Gradosielski Ted LornaPattle Two jars of French Jan medium clear 17 No entries and/or awards honey
(Novice)
Two jars of dark clear 18 No entries and/or awards
honey
(Novice)
1st Norman J McDonald Romford
For
Two jars of Howard Green (Friends of clear honey, 2nd Braintree 19 Cressing Temple Gardens) any colour (Novice) 3rd Debbie Adams Southend
VHC Angela Mander Romford
Novice class.
Best container of comb cut honey container Best Section classes in extracted honey points Most fruit cake honey Best uncast candles of cast exhibit and Best honey of extractable Frame of number gaining total highest Division classes in all points number total highest gaining of Exhibitor classes in all points honey in classes all points Most of cake beeswax Best Two jars of set honey soft or crystallised of Jars Twelve Howard Green (Friends of
crystallised
20 VHC Braintree
Cressing Temple Gardens)
honey, natu-
ral or soft set
5
39
1 & 4 & 1
1 to 1 12
22 & 26 & 22 21 & 13 35 & 36 & 35 Howard Green (Friends of Classes Novice class. 9, &12 10 11B & 11A
1st Braintree 2, 3, 6, 7, 8,
One cake of Cressing Temple Gardens) 21 beeswax, 99gm - 128gm 2nd Nick Messenger Romford
1st Susan Richardson Romford
2nd Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon
One honey fruit 3rd James McNeill Romford
Award
22
cake s Cup s VHC Michael J Barke Harlow ’
HC Margaret Clay Chelmsford
CowanVase Cup Dearman Trophy Ford Knife and Cup HortonCake Cup Mallinson Cup Ongar President Cup Holmes Bowl Challenge Tidswell Cup Jersey C Sean Fowler Harlow Cup Challenge Burt 8 17 EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS 1st September 2018 1st September 2018 Orsett Showground, Thurrock Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Class Description Position Winner Division Class Description Position Winner Division 1st John Willett Harlow 1st Sabine Barke Harlow 2nd John Ferguson D H & Maldon 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow 49 Beeswax polish 3rd Howard Green (Friends Braintree Six honey nut 3rd Sue Frazer Harlow of Cressing Temple 23 cookies Gardens) VHC James McNeill Romford VHC Michael J Barke Harlow HC Zoe Bridges D H & Maldon 50 Vase of flowers 2nd Susan Andrews Romford C Keith Naunton Harlow 1st Harlow Division 1st Sabine Barke Harlow 51 Divisional Garden 2nd Romford Division 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow 3rd Dengie 100 & Maldon Division One honey 3rd Susan Andrews Romford 1st Pauline Tidmas Harlow 24 sandwich VHC Julie Watson D H & Maldon 52 Needlework 2nd Sue Frazer/Maggie Dixon Harlow/D H & HC Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon (Joint) Maldon C Susan Richardson Romford CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE ABOVE PRIZEWINNERS, and to 1st Zoe Bridges D H & Maldon GARY STAPLETON (Southend Division) winner of the BBKA Blue Ribbon for ‘BEST IN SHOW’ 2nd Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon Four Apricot 3rd Millie Jane Perry Harlow 25 and Honey Scones VHC Susan Andrews Romford The Bee Shed HC John Ferguson D H & Maldon Approved National Bee Supplies Stockist and Distributor C Margaret Clay Chelmsford A Range of Frames and Foundation Junior Class Hives and Hive Parts, Tools and Equipment 26 One Honey No entries and/or awards Open by Appointment: Please call Wendy on 07764 609 803 or Fruit Cake Email: [email protected] Junior Class 27 Six Honey Nut No entries and/or awards f The Bee Shed Stock Cookies Meepshole, Great Prestons Lane, Stock, Essex CM4 9RL Junior Class 28 One Honey No entries and/or awards Sandwich 16 9 EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS 1st September 2018 1st September 2018 Orsett Showground, Thurrock Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Class Description Position Winner Division
One colour pho- HC Victoria Tidmas Harlow 41 tograph related Cont’d to beekeeping - unmounted C Danny Nicholl Harlow
One Bottle of 1st Michael J Barke Harlow 42 sweet melomel 2nd James McNeill Romford
One bottle of dry 43 1st Janet French Braintree melomel 1st James McNeill Romford One bottle of 44 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow sweet metheglin Judging the record number 3rd Carlie Mayes D H & Maldon of cookery entries One bottle of dry 45 1st Michael J Barke Harlow metheglin 1st Pauline Tidmas Harlow 2nd Paul F Abbott Southend 3rd Carol Sissons Harlow 46 Honey label VHC Keith Naunton Harlow Frames of extractable honey - Class 5 HC Michael J Barke Harlow
C Scarlett Dawson D H & Maldon
Winner of Class 52 - Needlework Pair of 47 coloured bees- 2nd Jim McNeill Romford wax candles 1st Val-Lily Jepps Harlow
Junior Class 2nd Joseph Holt Southend Two rolled 48 3rd Luke Ruane Southend beeswax candles VHC Eloise Holt Southend Susan Andrews’ Vase of HC Natasha Ruane Southend Flowers in Class 50 10 15 EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW 1st September 2018 1st September 2018 Orsett Showground, Thurrock Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Class Description Position Winner Division
1st James McNeill Romford Pair of beeswax 2nd Nick Messenger Romford 35 candles - cast in a mould VHC Carol Stapleton Southend C Margaret Clay Chelmsford 2nd James McNeill Romford Pair of beeswax VHC Nick Messenger Romford 36 candles - not cast in a mould HC Jane Abbott Southend C Pauline Tidmas Harlow Happy Helpers on the Centenary Stand and the Central Display Practical invention 1st Darren Burge D H & Maldon 37 related to bee- Which honey shall I buy? keeping 2nd Carlie Mayes D H & Maldon 1st Victoria Tidmas Harlow
Twelve 454g jars 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow of clear honey, all 38 3rd James McNeill Romford one colour & Not just honey labelled VHC David Tidmas Harlow HC Paul F Abbott Southend Twelve 454g jars of 1st James McNeill Romford crystallised or soft 39 set honey, all one colour & labelled 2nd Paul F Abbott Southend Beeswax Products of all sorts 1st Scarlett Dawson D H & Maldon Junior class. One colour photo- 2nd Sophie Collins D H & Maldon 40 graph related to 3rd Aimee Collins D H & Maldon beekeeping, The Honey Tasting Table VHC Lexi O’Connor D H & Maldon was very popular 1st Carol Stapleton Southend One colour photo- graph related to 2nd Gary Stapleton Southend 41 beekeeping - un- 3rd David Tidmas Harlow mounted VHC Carlie Mayes D H & Maldon 14 11
EBKA ANNUAL HONEY SHOW RESULTS 1st September 2018 Orsett Showground, Thurrock
Class Description Position Winner Division 1st Angela Mander Romford 2nd James McNeill Romford
Six pieces of 3rd Michael J Barke Harlow 29 BBKA Blue Ribbon Award for Honey Fudge VHC Sabine Barke Harlow Gary Stapleton’s Chunk Honey HC Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon C Simon Nicholson Epping Forest 1st James McNeill Romford 2nd Michael J Barke Harlow
Six pieces of 3rd Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon 30 honey toffee Paul Abbott and Jim McNeill in the VHC Sabine Barke Harlow Demonstration area HC Ron Pratt D H & Maldon C Susan Andrews Romford 1st Maggie Dixon D H & Maldon
All photographs on pages 10—12 2nd Sabine Barke Harlow One honey and 3rd Michael J Barke Harlow by Tony Andrews 31 malt wholemeal Cover photo by Jean Smye loaf VHC Margaret Clay Chelmsford HC Linda Yeats Saffron Walden Lots of honey to sell C Julie Watson D H & Maldon
1st Eloise Holt Southend PETER DALBY - PEBADALE APIARIES Junior Class 2nd Val-Lily Jepps Harlow A Poster about For all your beekeeping and apitherapy supplies 32 beekeeping 3rd Joseph Holt Southend Large Stock held - all year round VHC Scarlett Dawson D H & Maldon Competitive prices; any item not stocked to special order 1st Harlow Division 37 Cecil Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 8TN Divisional Tel: 01992 622645 Email: [email protected] 33 Composite Class 2nd Southend Division Open Mon - Sat Telephone before calling (any reasonable time) Decorative dis- 2nd Dengie 100 & Maldon Division CLOSED SUNDAY 34 play of honey Agent for E H Thorne and Northern Bee Books products 12 13