With thanks to the presenters involved and sponsors, particularly The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for supporting the recordings, the BBKA is delighted to bring you presentations from recent Spring Conventions.

These presentations are available on the BBKA YouTube Channel. Please click on the titles below to access individual recordings. Subscribing to the channel is free, and if you subscribe to the channel and 'click the bell' you will receive updates when more videos are uploaded.

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2026

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2025

• Peter Davies: 'NBU field response to Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet'  
• Dr Jeff Pettis: 'Small Hive Beetle Update'
• Prof. Peter Neumann: 'The global threats facing honey bees'
• Roger Patterson: 'Beekeeping: Challenge what you are told'  
• Dr Jane Medwell: 'Swarm prevention and control' 
  
  
  

2024

• Dr Eleanor Jones: '2023 Asian hornet outbreak' Plus Q&A with Dr Belinda Phillipson (DEFRA Bee Health Policy Lead) and Professor Nicola Spence (DEFRA Deputy Director for Bees)
• Prof. Tom D Seeley:  Nature-based beekeeping  
• Dr Sandra Rojas Nossa: Asian hornet: establishment & management globally
• Dr Alexandra Sapoznik: Beeswax in medieval England 
• John Hendrie: British beekeeping for 150 years
• Prof. Jamie Ellis: Mating biology of the honey bee  
  
  

2023

• Chris Park: ‘The Feminine Monarchie’ - 1623 & Charles Butler
• Prof Stephen Martin & co-presenters: Path to varroa resistance in the UK 
• Randy Oliver: Science and Beekeeping 
• Prof Giles Budge: Chronic bee paralysis 
• Prof Samuel Ramsey: Treating Tropilaelaps 
  
  

2022

• Prof Lars Chittka: The social intelligence of bees
• Prof Gene Robinson: Me to We with Bees. Searching for the genetic roots of social life 
• Prof Robert Paxton: Pathogen spillover from bee to bee 
• Prof Juliet Osborne: What motivates beekeepers & what motivates people to take action to conserve pollinators? 
• Dr Mark Barnett: Genetic testing of honey bees for beekeepers 
• Celia Davis: In Self Defence 

2021

•      Prof Keith Delaplane: How honey bees use genetics to solve their problems and what we can learn from it
•      Dr Stephen Pernal: Developing markers for breeding bees
•      Dr Nicola Bradbear: Research needed for better beekeeping development 
•      Dr David Aston: Tipping Points and Perceptions
•      Lynfa Davies: Spring Cleaning the Honey Bee Way
•      Shirley Bond: From Comb to Candle
•      Dr Sara Robb: Making Kitchen Cosmetics
•      Margaret Murdin: BBKA Exam Technique and Module 1
•      Oliver St.John: Assemble the perfect home for your bees 
•      Chris Park: Tales from the Honey Isles

2020 

BBKA is grateful to both the C.B.Dennis Trust and the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for generous sponsorship of all three recordings below. These have been provided by Professor Tom Seeley, of Cornell University, who was to have been a speaker at the Convention. We hope you enjoy them!   

• Prof Tom Seeley Bee hunting 
• Prof Tom Seeley The Lives of Bees 
• Prof Tom Seeley Darwinian Beekeeping
  
  

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