BOOMTREEBEES ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT RESEARCH!
BOOMTREEBEES ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT RESEARCH!
We are actively involved in gathering information on free living honeybee colonies. Throughout the year we monitor colonies and the data that is collected gets used to get a better understanding of these honeybee colonies. We share this information with Galway Honeybee Research Centre(GHBRC). We also collaborate with the Native Irish Honeybee Society.
Our current research questions relate to how honeybees can survive undisturbed here in Ireland in the presence of Varroa destructor and the impacts of hybridization on native honeybees from imports of non-native strains and species. Differences in fitness between free-living and managed, treated and untreated, and native and non-native are being explored through a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach.
NIHBS was established in November 2012 to support the various strains of the native Irish honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera). We aim to promote the conservation, study, improvement and re-introduction of Apis mellifera mellifera throughout the island of Ireland, to achieve this we seek the help of the scientific community and other stakeholders in achieving our aims and objectives.