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Beginners Course Jan 2024

Our next beginner’s course begins on January 3rd 2024 at 19.30 and is a series of 8 online lectures. For further details and to register please visit Beginners Beekeeping Course 2024 Tickets, Wed 3 Jan 2024 at 19:30 | Eventbrite

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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.

Posted in Pollinators, Resources

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

Posted in CCBKA, Winter Losses

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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