Yearly Archives: 2020

Looking for an apiary site or pollinating bees?

Are you a beekeeper looking for an apiary site or a farmer looking for bees for pollination or a company with room for beehives looking to fulfill your greening requirements. FIBKA met with the grain growers etc where some of

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A Guide to Help Pollinators

What to plant in our Garden? For practical information see the National biodiversity Guidelines to help Pollinators Actions to help Pollinators.

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Cork Winter Losses 2019/2020

The winter of 2019/2020 was mild and bees needed a lot of feeding. We surveyed our members in April 2020 on their winter losses and the winter losses of those who responded were 19% on full colonies  with 35% losses

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Beginners course Skibbereen March 2020

Our Autumn beginners course 2019 was sold out and successful. We will run one again in 2020 but in the meantime we are running a course on the 4 consecutive Sundays beginning March 1st 2020 in Skibbereen, Co Cork. This

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CCBKA Spring Lectures

Our Spring Lecture series will take place in CIT room B162 starting at 19.30. lecturer Topic Date Mick Lane Mead  12th February 2020 (Wednesday) Denis McCarthy Swarming Bees 19th February 2020 (Wednesday) John Healy Bee keeping as a hobby while

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