Scottish Beekeepers Association
The member organisation representing Scottish beekeepers nationally and internationally
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Scottish Beekeepers Association
Web Links
The following links will take you to a variety of beekeeping web sites from within the UK and also much further afield. All the links should open automatically in a new browser window, but they will take you out of the SBA website. These links are all offered in good faith, but please remember, the SBA is not repsonsible for the content of other people's web pages!
Local Area Beekeeping Associations in Scotland
- Aberdeen Beekeepers Association
- Ayr Beekeepers Association
- Dunblane and Stirling Beekeepers Association
- East Lothian Beekeepers Association
- Edinburgh and Midlothian Beekeepers Association
- Moray Beekeepers Association
- Dingwall and District Beekeepers Association
- Dunfermline & West Fife Beekeepers' Association
- Peeblesshire Beekeepers' Association
Other UK Beekeeping Web Sites
- Beekeeping facility at Inverness College
- Bumblebee Conservation Trust - Strictly speaking not about honeybees, but bumblebees need all the interest and support we can give them too. Go on, take a look! This is still a truly beautiful and inspiring web site, whose authors deserve every credit.
- Ulster Beekeeping Association
- www.beedata.com. This is a Bee Information Website for both beginner and proficient beekeepers. It has the latest University Bee Research and a globally produced bi-monthly E-Bee Newsletter APIS-UK. Subscription is free and automatic. The website is hosted by Northern Bee Books. Well worth following the newsletter if you are keen to keep bang up-to-date vai email and e-news.
- www.gardenofeaden.blogspot.com/ is a website that specialises in horticultural and gardening articles and now seems to be moving into environmental issues after receiving interest from an American environment commitee based in Chicago.
- www.biobees.org is the site of The barefoot beekeepr. The site is about sustainable, chemical-free, small-scale, 'organic' beekeeping, using simple equipment that almost anyone can make at home.
- A basic beekeeping book is free to download at http://www.aces.edu/counties/Montgomery/documents/BackyardBeekeepingANR-0135.pdf
- Scottish Executive Bee Officers' Guidance on inspections etc. can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Agriculture/grants/Inspections/BeeInspections
- The Bee Improvement and Bee Breeeders' Association (BIBBA), an excellent web site for all those interested in this field of work. http://www.bibba.org.uk/
- Friends of the Bees is a new, UK-based charity founded to conserve and protect bees.
Worldwide Beekeeping Web Sites
- The Beekeeper's Homepages Internet Resouorces - a portal to a large number of beekeeping web sites outside the UK
- National honey Board (USA)
- USA Sunsite - message threads and donwloads etc.
- Discover the Bumblebee
- Federation of Irish Beekeepers' Associations
- International Bee Research Association
- Bees for Development
- Bee Source Com
- European Professional Beekeepers Association
- Beeculture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping. Loads of information and resources, articles, news etc. American origin, and of interest to many UK and European beekeepers as well.
- The Bee Photographer - a photographer's view of beekeeping around the world.
- The web site of Rivendale Apiculture, South Africa
UK Beekeeping Equipment Suppliers
- Sherriff International
- Sherriff International Bee gifts
- Highland Bee Supplies
- Northern Bee Books
- www.buzzybeeshop.co.uk - everything for queen rearing
- http://www.beechwoodbees.co.uk
- Peak Hives at http://www.peak-hives.co.ukis an online business based in the Peak District making beehives
- Caddon Hives - Suppliers of low cost quality WBC and National Hives, based in the Scottish Borders.
- Heritage Longbows, based in Staffordshire, makes and supplies National Hives
- Beeproof Suits is a company selling a range of beekeeper's protective clothing that is stylish and has innovative design features. Made from heavy duty cotton. They also have hive tools, smokers and Varroa treatments.
Miscellaneous Beekeeping and Honey related sites
- Sugar Free Recipes
- Firstpasture - books for smallholders and farmers, including beekeepers
- Honig Schmidt is a honey and honey-products supplier in Germany's Black Forest.
- Bees in Art is an online gallery devoted to art inspired by bees.
- A web site for a web design template service can be found here if you want help designing a beekeeping web site yourself.
- The Beekeeping Resource Guide is a site containign a host of links to other beekeeping web sites.
- BBSRC - Bioscience for the Future - web site announcing projects to address the decline in insect pollinators, June 2010
- C. Arden is a bookseller situated in Hay-onWye, dealing in New, out-of-print and antiquarian books in natural history, gardening & bees and beekeeping
Please contact the Webmaster if you find any broken links, or would like to request the addition of a new link.