The latest BeeHolder, typos and all, is now available on line in the usual place. Thanks to TS for another well rounded mag. Enjoy!

The following is specific to some Scottish honey following foul brood treatment, but the infornmation on having honey tested may be of interest. An English version follows the Welsh.

Professor Rose Cooper, whose is making good progress in her research in working out how manuka honey kills MRSA, is about to start a new project looking at British honeys.

To carry out this research, Rose would like some British monofloral samples of 100g over the next couple of months. This is a small amount of honey and the least beekeepers can do for this very important research she and her team are carrying out. Therefore, if you can help in any way with a monofloral honey or know of a beekeeper who may have some, could you please contact:-

John Tayler,

The American universities research team that has been studying the effects of multiple-pesticides-exposure on bees as part of the CCD Research project - has published its report and made it available via the Public Library of Science website - see the link at the bottom of this article.

One or two people (actually several) have expressed an interest in natural beekeeping, top bar hives, Warre hives and the like. I've started a discussion forum called natural beekeeping and posted an item asking if anybody is interested in building a top bar hive (or indeed any sort of hive) for the MBKA apiary at Gregynog Hall. I've also created a discussion thread called Natural Beekeeping to address other aspects.