Our Apiary
What is an Apiary?
A place where Beekeepers keep the
Hives in their care.
An Apiary may consist of one or hundreds of Bee Hives and though
usually a permanent location is sometimes temporary.
Beverley Beekeepers' Association
has it's own Apiary entirely dedicated to demonstrations, teaching
& training of Beekeepers, new or experienced. If you sign up for a
'Beginners' Course', 'One Day Intensive Course' or 'Taster' sessions
it's at this Apiary you will receive tutoring.
If any surplus colonies are generated during the Summer season they are
usually supplied to Novice Beekeepers or Association members.
Our Apiary is managed and run by
a team of volunteers from within Beverley Beekeepers' Association.
At present there are approximately ten colonies on the site, which to
look after is no mean feat when looking after your own Bees too.
The following photo sequence shows the typical sort of work undertaken by the Apiary volunteers. The pictures all represent some of the activities that students on a course will be involved in as they learn about colony management through observation and then undertaking hive manipulations.
 Smoking the Bees. |
 Removing the 1st Super or Honey Box. |
 Removing the 2nd Super or Honey Box. |
 Inspecting the Queen Excluder. A device to stop the Queen laying eggs in the Honeycomb. |
 Removing a Brood frame. This is the area in which the Queen is allowed to lay eggs and the colony rear its young. |
 Examining the Brood frame. A critical part of Beekeeping is learning to read the Brood pattern and the behaviour of the Bees on these frames. |
 Locating the Queen. Not always useful or needed but sometimes you have to. |
 Trapping the Queen. |
 Examining the Queen in a 'Queen Clip'. |
 Transferring a Nucleus Colony to a full Hive during one of our open days. |