The number of beekeepers and hives has increased since the lows of the early 2000s, but there is still more to be done to protect our pollinators.
It’s been 150 tumultuous years since the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) was founded, but now, thankfully, more and more people are keeping bees. Back in 1953, there were 80,000 beekeepers in England and Wales with 396,000 colonies, but numbers slowly reduced and, after a varroamite disaster in the 1990s, pesticide…
