Bee Health & Diseases

Teagasc offers a Honeybee disease diagnostic service to beekeepers. The following notes provide some information of the diseases tested for,

Control of Diseases 2016

MAKE SURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS OF FOUL BROOD AND OTHER BROOD DISORDERS Inspect your colonies every spring

It is the responsibility of every beekeeper to protect our honeybee – an essential pollinator of crops and wild plants.

2018 May 2018 Temperatures for the time of year will be around normal, with quiet a bit of rain forecast.

Following the discovery of Varroa in Devon in 1992, all imports of bees into Northern Ireland were banned and therefore

That was the dilemma I faced at a recent Association apiary demonstration, which was held in a member’s apiary. To

Here’s a message from our Bee Health officer – please share this with your members. “Over the past few weeks a number of beekeepers around the country have told
me…”

In the days before the advent of moveable frame hives, books were written concerning bee behaviour based on supposition, when

One of the ways we look at our bees when we are assessing them to improve our stocks is to look at the brood pattern. But what exactly does it tell us, or does it tell us anything at all?