DARG Dates 2025
Meeting Dates: Normally second Sunday of the month except AGM which is first or second Saturday in November.
Location: Buckfast Abbey, apart from July when Tricia and Alan are hosting.
Jan – Steve Riley Varroa free beekeeping
Feb – Mail Order Queens. Clare Densley
March – Discussion: Benefits/detriment of reducing varroa treatments and commensals
April – Pollenize the latest research
May – Evolution, Keith de la Plane film followed by a discussion
June – Bee tea venue TBD
July – Diversity in the hive, a discusion about the queen’s genetics
Aug – No meeting
Sept – Wax moth research or Bee vision
Oct -Bee sting trial results ref Plymouth university study
Nov – Fursleigh Mill for 12 November 2025 for both lunch and AGM
Dec – Planning meeting plus results from commensals study by David
Jan 26 – Zoom talk. Wild colonies