Derek and Elaine Mitchell – “Hive Warming”

Our regular monthly meeting, the speakers this time will be Derek and Elaine Mitchell – “Hive Warming”
Refreshments as usual from 7.00pm.
Derek and Elaine Mitchell have undertaken rigorous research into the best way to maintain the correct temperature within a colony. Derek is an engineer by profession. When his wife took up beekeeping, he became interested in trying to find out the optimum temperature inside a beehive, and this led to their now much wider research.
Our events coordinator was particularly keen to have them on the Speaker programme as we feel that their lecture will throw some scientific light on the question of polystyrene versus conventional hives, as well as looking at tree hives and other options. This promises to be a most interesting lecture and we hope we will give them a good audience.