Bees for Development Journal 115: June 2015
of old stings or squashed bees. Thick gloves may protect hands from stings, but they make the beekeeper clumsy and therefore more likely to be stung. BfDJ 43* included an article on making low-cost gloves from plastic tubes.
Bee friendly In the past, beekeepers have tried to breed more ‘docile’ strains of Apis mellifera, that are less likely to sting, by carrying out selective breeding programmes. However, it is now thought that this may reduce colony resilience and resistance to disease. Understanding that bees sting only when they are defending their brood nest and honey stores from attack is an important attribute of the successful beekeeper. Our aim is to be careful with the bees, and not to harm them: we are benefitting from their production of honey and beeswax, and we can at least be kind to them. *These articles are available at www.beesfordevelopment.org/ resources-for-beekeepers/ informationportal Author details Bees for Development, 1 Agincourt Street, Monmouth NP25 3DZ, UK
LOOK AHEAD CAMEROON 1st Cameroon Honey Show October 2015, Yaounde Further details soukybert@yahoo.fr DOMINICAN REPUBLIC XII Congreso Centroamericano y del Caribe de Integración y Actualización Apícola 24-26 June 2015, Punta Cana Further details www.cedaf.org.do EGYPT 1st Continental Symposium on Honey Production, Bee Health and Pollination Services in Africa 1-3 September 2015, Cairo Further details beesymposium@au-ibar.org
Beekeeper at the Kodagu Beekeeping Museum, Karnataka, India, working with the Asian bee Apis cerana: no special clothing necessary!
ETHIOPIA ApiEthiopia Expo December 2015, Ethiopia Further details nbtb1963@yahoo.com PHILIPPINES Apimondia Symposium on Indigenous Bee Species 1-4 February 2016, Tagaytay City Further details www. apimondiaphilippines2016.com RWANDA 5th ApiTrade Africa Event 2016, Kigali Further details will appear here SAUDI ARABIA 13th AAA Conference 2016 2016 Further details will appear here SLOVENIA 1st Pan-European Honey Breakfast 21 November 2015 Further details www.czs.si 13
SOUTH AFRICA FAO XIV World Forestry Congress 7-11 September 2015, Durban Further details www.fao.org/about/ meetings/world-forestry-congress SOUTH KOREA APIMONDIA: 44th International Apicultural Congress 15-20 September 2015, Deajeon Further details see page 20 UGANDA 6th National Honey Week 24-29 August 2015, Kampala Further details www.tunadobees.org UK Scottish BKA Autumn Convention 12 September 2015, Oatridge Further details www.scottishbeekeepers.org.uk
