IBRA at the ABF Confernce, Orlando. 

Thanks to the American Beekeeping Federation for their warm hospitality in Orlando last week. It was a great opportunity for Sarah and Richard to catch-up with IBRA members and friends on the otherside of the Atlantic. We are particularly grateful to Virginia Webb of Webb's Mountain Honey Farm for sponsoring our stand.

NEW IBRA STRUCTURE 

The Membership and Subscription structure of IBRA has changed. A membership of IBRA will now be offered at a reduced rate and will include 4 issues of "Buzz Extra", along with other benefits.

Journal of Apicultural Research will not be included in this membership, but will be available as a subscription only. Please note that this journal will become electronic and available online only. Hard copies can be provided, but at an additional cost.

Journal of ApiProduct and ApiMedical Science, our new electronic journal published in 2009, will be available as a subscription also.

Please click here for full details of the above.    

IBRA's new Greeting Cards !

We would like to say a big "Thank you" to Carole Stevens for allowing us to use her fantastic photographs for our new set of greeting cards.

Carole, a keen photographer, approached us earlier in the year and asked if we would be interested in her photos and could they be used in some way to help IBRA. We were delighted with the offer! 

These attractive cards are now on sale in our shop - so support IBRA and buy your Bee Cards here!
(August, 2009)

Thank you Greenlife! 

Greenlife recently held a 'Bee Awareness' event at their store in Totnes, Devon, U.K. They contacted IBRA for information leaflets and promotional material, and we were delighted to help them spread the word about bees!

Greenlife also raised funds for IBRA and we are grateful for their donation.                                                   (July, 2009)

www.greenlife.co.uk

New Eva Crane Publication

Although Dr Crane left this world in September 2007 one of her studies, never before published, has just seen the light of day via the Internet. Terms in Indo-European languages for some concepts related to honey, bees and hives

The article appears on Dublin University's School of Celtic Studies web site:

www.celt.dias.ie/publications/online/beearticle

In the paper there is much interesting information and two useful tables showing the similarities, and dissimilarities, of words for a number of bee products. Such words also give an insight into the ways in which communities regarded these products in early times. A useful adjunct to this work is the table on words covering honey and honeydew that appeared in Honey by another name (Jones, R. Buzz Extra Vol 5, No.3 September 2008)

Eva Crane
(image courtesy Bucks Free Press, 1990)