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Southampton and District Beekeepers Association

Promoting the well-being and management of bee colonies across the south coast. You don't even need to have bees!

Southampton & District Beekeepers Association are affiliated to the Hampshire Beekeeping Association and the British Beekeepers Association. It operates to promote the hobby and art of beekeeping in the area including summer meetings at our Apiary in Romsey and at various venues in the area during the winter close season. Beekeeping is a hobby for all ages and the Association welcomes everyone into membership, offering a site for your bees, training, equipment hire and advice and mentoring from the more experienced members. A honey show is held once a year in the autumn, as well as many other social events both in and outside of beekeeping. The current membership happily represents a cross-section of the community with all ages, genders and backgrounds

We're looking forward to you interacting with us on here, or more directly by becoming a member.

24/10/2026

Congratulations to SDBKA’s one and only Tracey H. First place 🥇 at the National Honey Show Awards.

18/10/2026

National Honey Day 21st October - buy local honey!

21st October 2026: a celebration of local honey & beekeeping.

18/10/2026

Who is heading to this years National Honey 🍯 Show?

10/10/2026

Ben from SDBK 🐝 will be joining Bitterne Park businesses this weekend for a two-day ‘Pink Weekend’ to raise money and awareness for cancer charity Maggie’s Southampton, and its support for local people and their families. Ben will be raffling a bee hive - tickets 🎫 £5.

07/10/2026

Hampshire Honey Show 2026: Well Tracey from SDBKA who had a fantastic day including Best in Show 🏆🐝🥇👍🏻

19/09/2026

Don’t forget the Thorne sale today!

15/09/2026

Update on YLH sightings 10/9/26

Update 10 September

The Animal and Plant Health Agency’s National Bee Unit (NBU) has informed us that it has received further credible reports of YLH. To date there have been 187 sightings in 2026 resulting in the identification of 60 nests.

The nests confirmed this week are recorded in the following locations:

Hampshire
Hedge End (secondary)

Isle of Wight
West Cowes (secondary)

Kent
Cranbrook (secondary)
Ramsgate (secondary)
Folkestone (secondary)

Lincolnshire
Immingham (secondary)

West Sussex
North Berstead (secondary)

The following nests are awaiting destruction: Folkestone and Cranbrook in Kent, West Cowes in the Isle of Wight, Immingham in Lincolnshire and Hedge End in Hampshire.

Multiple sightings continue to be monitored by the NBU, local beekeepers and Yellow-legged hornet teams at locations across Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Lincolnshire, Somerset and West Sussex.

Please report all sightings via the FREE Hornet Watch app.

See It. Snap It. Send It.

15/09/2026

The Romsey Show: Well done to our members who had a great day 🍯 at the Romsey Honey Show. Here are a some of their successes…

08/09/2026

Honey show success!

Thank you to everyone that came to our honey show!

It was a very successful and enjoyable day, in which our beekeepers competed for awards in a range of categories.

Yes there was lots of honey, but also wax entries, frames, photos and lots of cakes and biscuits!

Congratulations to the winners.

18/07/2026

Please come and visit us at Trifest in Bitterne triangle today!

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http://www.southamptonbeekeepers.co.uk/index.htm

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