This takes you to the British Beekeepers Association homepage
 

Scottish

Beekeepers

Association

 
 

The Institute of Northern

Ireland Beekeepers

 
 
 

Beekeeping Blog


This links to an interesting blog containing historical information about beekeeping, along with practical advice, aimed particularly at new beekeepers.


http://www.proflowers.com/blog/beekeepers-guide.

 
 


For all your beekeeping supplies at Thornes catalogue prices minus postage, contact  Arthur Rainey, (RVBKA Treasurer) 25 Tyler Road, Limavady.

Tel: 028 77763472.                                 

Click Thornes' icon for a link their website

 
 

Bees for

Development

 


Coleraine Borough Council

Zomba Development Project

 



Read Ian Douglas's beekeeping diary at

www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/beekeeping

 




Click here for  a series of beekeeping radio programmes from down under:

The Back Yard Bee Team

 
If you are a new beekeeper and are finding it all a bit confusing, start with the British Beekeepers Association beginners guide
 

Bees are dying in droves. Why?

Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. He is Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, studying colony collapse disorder -- the alarming, worldwide disappearance of worker bees

 


The Ulster Beekeepers Association guidance statement on importation of Queens to Northern Ireland is on this link to their website

 

This link takes you to another site containing a good description of bee colony biology & organisation as a starter for ten, whilst you are trying to make sense of all the other bits of information

Resources for Biology Education by D G Mackean


http://www.biology-resources.com/bee-01.html

Here is a site containing useful info for beginners in beekeeping. Click here to be directed to it

http://www.beeginners.info/


Need something about bees for a school project,

or simply something to start you off?

Download this useful fact sheet from IBRA

(International Bee Research Association) by clicking here

Clicking on the AFBI logo

will download their

Report on Winter losses 2008-9

Clicking on the AFBI logo

will download their

Report on Winter losses 2009-10

The Beekeepers Year

What to do and when - A helpful guide for new beekeepers

 
 

Click on the RHS bee logo to visit the Royal Horticultural Society website for details of their new campaign to encourage the purchase of pollinator plants in support of bees and other pollinator insects.


You can also download the RHS list of pollinator plants by clicking this link (downloads as a pdf file)

RHS Pollinators Plant List.