Members: See Members’ Area for invitation to our Christmas celebration meal on 6th December.

Resources
Early Season:
– The Annual Cycle
– The First Spring Inspection
– Collecting and Hiving a Swarm
– Identifying Queen cells
– Queen rearing.
– Marking Queens
General:
– Bees, Wasps and Buzzy things
– Forage and Pollen Guide
– The Sting
– Reading your bees.
– Bee Craft Glossary (link)
– Guidelines for selling a nucleus .
– Using nuclei
– Uniting colonies.
– Re-queening a defensive colony
– Feeders and Feed
Disease and controls:
– Common bee viruses (Link)
– Foulbrood.
– Varroa
– Counting varroa.
– Sugar dusting.
– Shook swarm
– Nosema
Honey and Hive Products:
– Processing Honey
– Showing/selling Honey
– Labelling Honey
– Granulated Honey
– Soft set honey
– Processing Wax
– Candle making
Education

Courses and Assessments – 2026
For a full list of assessments please click here.

HBA Honey Bee Health & Beekeeper Education Day 2026
– Sparsholt College
– Mar 1 from 9am to 5pm GMT

Intermediate Microscopy Course 2026
Two day course to prepare for the BBKA Microscopy Assessment in September 2026
– Waiting list only!

Asian Hornets (YLAH)

Many beekeepers are actively supporting the NBU to find and eradicate nests. During the winter of 2025/26 we will be developing strategies to systematically track and trace nests in the spring and summer of 2026
Links to resources:
– Current NBU Overview,
–Latest sightings,
–YLAH Fact Sheet.
– Update Vidios

Members News
December 2025

Four happy beekeepers receiving their Basic Certificates.

About Us

We are passionate about beekeeping. Meridian Beekeepers’ Association supports beekeepers in the South Hampshire area. We also aim to raise public awareness of bees, beekeeping and the environment. Please visit our about page.

Apiary Meetings 2026
West End Apiary meeting, 10th May, 2025

2026 dates will be announced in March for our apiaries in West End and Wickham.