“Science for the thinking beekeeper” - Norman Carreck

Описание: Beekeeping involves multiple biological systems, and therefore good beekeeping relies on an understanding of the biological principles and the underlying science that guide how bees behave in particular circumstances.

It's the difference between somebody who can follows a recipe and a cook who understands the scientific principles and can cook a good meal from a random collection of ingredients using unfamiliar equipment.

Norman Carreck walks us through a timeline of some of the most important bee scientists and their work before providing insights on three projects that are helping further our understanding of bee and colony behaviour and the implications for beekeepers.

Norman has been keeping bees since the age of 15. He read Agricultural Science at Nottingham University and joined Rothamsted Research in 1987 as an agronomist working on nutrient uptake in cereal crops. Between 1991 and 2006 he was apiculturalist in the Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division there, with responsibility for maintaining about 80 colonies of honey bees and was also fully involved in research on pollination ecology, bee behaviour, bee pathology and forage for bees.

Since 2008 he has carried out research at the University of Sussex on bee breeding and pesticides and bees. Between 2007 and 2018 he was Senior Editor of the Journal of Apicultural Research, and between 2009 and 2018 he was employed as Science Director of the International Bee Research Association. He obtained the National Diploma in Beekeeping in 1996, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 2004, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2011.

He is also a Trustee of the C B Dennis British Beekeepers Research Trust, Examinations Moderator for the Examinations Board for the UK National Diploma in Beekeeping, an Independent Science Advisor to the “Bee Health Advisory Forum” for the Defra “Healthy Bees Plan” and is the only UK member of the Executive Committee of the international honey bee research network “COLOSS”. He is joint editor of the Beekeepers Quarterly, a director of Carreck Consultancy Ltd and Bee Publishing Ltd and is an Associate Fellow of the University of Sussex.

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