Monitoring

free living honey bee colony in a beech tree cavity

Monitoring free living colonies

Galway Honey bee research Centre.

Boomtreebees are actively involved in gathering information on free living honey bee colonies. Throughout the year we monitor colonies and the data that is collected gets used to get a better understanding of these honey bee colonies. We share this information with The Galway Honeybee Research Centre(GHBRC). We also collaborate with the Native Irish Honey Bee Society

Galway Honey bee research Centre.

Carries out research on the genetic and morphological diversity of honeybees including free-living and managed colonies. 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. In addition insights into the population structure and diversity at multiple loci are being explored via single locus, multi-locus, and total genome approaches. For more information go to https://galwayhbrc.com/ .

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Native Irish Honey bee Society

To promote the conservation, study, improvement and re-introduction of Apis mellifera mellifera (native Irish honey bees) throughout the island of Ireland
To establish conservation areas throughout the island
To promote the formation of bee improvement groups
To provide education on bee improvement and to increase public awareness of the nat

To promote the conservation, study, improvement and re-introduction of Apis mellifera mellifera (native Irish honey bees) throughout the island of Ireland
To establish conservation areas throughout the island
To promote the formation of bee improvement groups
To provide education on bee improvement and to increase public awareness of the native Irish honey bee and its importance
To act in an advisory capacity to groups and individuals who wish to promote Apis mellifera mellifera
To co-operate with other beekeeping organisations with similar aims
To seek the help of the scientific community and other stakeholders in achieving our aims and objectives

For more information go to https://nihbs.org/

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