The BeeHolder, April 2011

... New Members

Janet Peacock [nr Montgomery], Cathie Ackroyd and Melfyn Davies [nr Llanidloes], Medina Brock and Richard Roberts [Felindre], Catherine Corbet [nr Montgomery], Catharyn Edwards [Abermule], Dave Evans [Berriew], Christine Gittins [Aberdovey], Andy and Sue Hughes [Meifod], Andrew Jenkins [nr Newtown] and Jane Milner [nr Newtown].

... New Bee Inspectors

Some of you will have noticed that list of bee inspectors has changed slightly. Peter Guthrie has retired as a seasonal bee inspector so that he can spend more time with his bees. This year's regime of seasonal bee inspectors includes John Beavan (East Montgomeryshire), David Coles (South West Montgomeryshire) and Peter Haywood (North West Montgomeryshire). That seems like a lot of bee inspectors for our county, but in fact it works out at well over 7.4 million bees each.

Actually it is because bee inspectors are not attached to bee keeping associations, but operate independently as officers of FERA (Food and Environment Research Agency). Hence the geographical areas covered by bee inspectors do not coincide with the geographical areas of bee associations.

If you are interested in what is involved in becoming a seasonal bee inspector, follow this link.