Club Meeting - Wally Shaw

Wally lives on Anglesey with his wife Jenny. He represents Wales on the Bee Health Advisory Panel and is the WBKA Technical Officer, in which role he has written a number booklets for the Association which are distributed free to all members.

Wally has given permission for this talk to be recorded.

The Role of Swarm Control in Beekeeping

Jenny and Wally came to live on Anglesey 44 years ago. They have about 2 acres of land and one of their first activities was to establish a large vegetable garden and plant an orchard comprising about 65 trees – mostly apples (over 50 varieties) but also pears and plums. After about 8 years, during which the trees had plenty of blossom, they had still not borne much fruit and they thought it might be lack of pollination. Through their children they knew a beekeeper in the next village and asked…