Inquiry into Animal and Plant Health

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Inquiry into Animal and Plant Health Background The UK directly imports a significant number of queens each year (Defra 2021), with the majority of these originating in Europe. Packages, colonies and queens can also be imported from mainland Europe via the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland. The legislative…

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“Bee Improvement for All” (BIFA) Days

“Bee Improvement for all” is a one day course that is designed to help beekeepers to improve their bees by using some of the opportunities that bees give them during the season, as well as giving information to those who wish to raise more queens .

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John Harding Queen Rearing

The main purpose of this systemis its versatility and to have an additional use so you always double its value in purpose, and it’s not lying around for the best part of the year unused. Given the choice honeybees prefer vertical narrow empty spaces with unlimited depth, and just enough space to build 5 or6 combs side by side…

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