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SUMMARY:Field Day
DESCRIPTION:Final club day for the season. \nHoney Show Judge – Lindsay Moir \nAll members\, novice and experienced\, can participate in the Honey Show. Follow the rules posted\, to be in to win one of the two Club Shields -the 2025 Novice or the Experienced Beekeepers Club Shield. Prizes to be announced later. \nA shield is awarded to the entrant with the most points overall and a novice shield is awarded to a first or second year beekeeper. (This must be stated at the time). \nGeneral Rules: \n• Members may only have one entry per class. If required\, guidance will be given as to which class your entry should be exhibited in. The judges decision will be final.\n• Exhibits must be delivered at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the judging.\n• Liquid and creamed honey must be in standard 500 gm square”round” plastic jars with white lids.\n• No labels on jars.\n• Only exhibits from Financial members will be accepted.\n• Write your initials (which may be on a small sticky label) on the BASE of the exhibit. \nClasses: \n1. Dark honey creamed\n2. Dark honey liquid\n3. Light honey creamed\n4. Light honey liquid\n5. Wax blocks 500 gm minimum weight\n6. Mead 750 ml clear glass bottle \nDetails of each class \n1 & 3. Dark creamed honey or light creamed honey\nThe entrant is to decide which class to enter.\nThe judge will take notice of flavour\, colour\, fineness of grain and freedom from foreign material. Please remember to obtain standard show jars. The reason for this uniformity is that different types of jars have varying light densities depending on the thickness of the glass. \n2 & 4. Light liquid honey or dark liquid honey the same criteria as above. \n5. Wax\nEach exhibit must be at least 500gms in weight and from this season. It must be presented as tipped from the mould; points will be lost for chipping or scraping.\nThe Judge will look for colour\, texture and purity. No restriction as to the shape of the mould.\nEntrants are advised not to heat wax in iron or enamel containers as this can discolour the wax\, for preference use an aluminium container. Do not overheat the wax; strain through stocking or similar; cool very slowly as this makes for uniformity of texture and freedom from cracking. Avoid propolis as this tends to darken the wax. Pure bees wax only to be used. One tea-spoon of vinegar helps to clarify wax. \n6. Mead 750 ml clear glass bottle with removable cork or screw top.\nNo labels on bottle.\nWrite your initials (which may be on a small sticky label) on the BASE of the exhibit.
URL:https://chchbeekeepers.org.nz/event/field-day-18/
LOCATION:Club\, 681 Cashmere Road\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8025\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Club day
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SUMMARY:World Bee Day
DESCRIPTION:Bees and other pollinators\, such as butterflies\, bats and hummingbirds\, are increasingly under threat from human activities. \nPollination is\, however\, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend\, entirely\, or at least in part\, on animal pollination\, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security\, but they are key to conserving biodiversity. \nhttps://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day \n 
URL:https://chchbeekeepers.org.nz/event/world-bee-day/
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