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Does the UK (and Ireland) import Bumble bees, are they queens or / and colonies? If so are there numbers published like for the imports of Honey Bee Queens? I just learned that many greenhouse, etc. operations need bumble bees to pollinate their 'under glass' (or under plastic) crops. (I read...

Hi all I stumbled across a piece of research about Calluna vulgaris (Ling Heather), https://www.academia.edu/17745231/Influence_of_Nitrogen_and_Winter_Climate_Stresses_on_Calluna_vulgaris_L_Hull it mentions the (Growing) Degree Days (you can wiki it) needed for the Winter dormancy to end, or...

Ruttner authored a Book (with BIBBA) based upon wing morphometrics of Apis mellifera collected in Britain before 1869...

I was reading another Thread which has gone way :ot:😲 and a question came into my mind.... Are there any Apis mellifera mellifera imports occurring into the British Isles? I understand that this may seem like a strange question, but from my understanding there is a good demand for 'Black' bees...

https://bibba.com/amm-in-uk/ The above Link to an article was provided in another Thread, the sentence that caught my attention was this; "...the official body promoting nature conservation south of the border, Natural England, whose staff maintain that the honey bee was introduced by man some...

Hi all Can anyone help us find this? I would really like to get my hands on DNA analysis of bees from here in Britain that previously I was unaware of. Recently the below Link was provided in a different Thread on this Forum...

Anyone tried this type of single frame, transparent walled mating nuc? Apparently very popular in Germany where they are called Einwabenkästchen (or EWK for short), they are mentioned in BIBBA's 2004 Summer magazine found here starting on page 21...

Ok, maybe they don't actually glow in the dark, but I swear, years ago I was at an apiary and the beek had glued (or maybe he bought in a queen) a 'red' disc onto the Queen, well is was more of an Orange colour, BUT whenever I looked down between the frames I could actually see the fluorescent...

A newspaper article stated (in quotation marks no less), that mead was the "chief alcoholic drink of the Welsh nation from Roman times until at least 1200AD" does anyone know of a source for this claim, surely it can't be true, wouldn't beer be cheaper and more easily available to the masses? I...

I was reading a now closed Thread and it made me remember a conversation with a Bee Inspector here in Northern Ireland, he said that the UBKA has about 850 members, but in his opinion there were an additional 750 beekeepers NOT members of any of the Northern Ireland Associations... 1600 beeks in...

Is there an online version of the Corpus Iuris Hibernici or equivalent, such as anything that contains large sections of our Brehon Laws, I'm obviously looking for the original text references to the Bee Judgements, etc. I know that there has been a lot written about it, but unless I can get a...

I'm in Ireland, is anyone aware of a similar Course being taught over here as the BBKA's "Bee Breeders Certificate"? I've had a quick look at our three Beekeeping Assoc.s but don't see anything; maybe it's incorporated in an existing course..? (I've reposted this message in a new thread as...