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This year I tried something new to try and control swarming and reduce the need for inspections over the TT period – I removed the queens from both my hives before practice week (the queens were caged and new homes found for them). One week later I inspected the hives and as expected there were […]
The island’s bee population will need to be checked again for disease this year after reports of illicit importation of foreign bees.
Despite a plea for the person responsible to identify themselves, no one has come forward.
In a twelve minute interview, Harry Owens, Isle of Man Bee Diseases Inspector, and President Elect of the Isle of Man Beekeepers Federation, tells Tanya Anderson of Lovely Greens TV of his concerns that there might have been an illegal importation of bees into the Isle of Man.
There is no certainty that this has […]
For those who wish to join us as we visit further apiaries and watch as Roger assesses more colonies on the island, please meet at the Rushen Primary School fourways crossroads, (Church Road/Castletown Road) Port St Mary at 8:50am on Sunday morning, 12 July.
All beekeepers are very welcome to join these visits which really […]
When Roger Patterson last visited the Isle of Man at the beginning of May, he managed to visit eleven apiaries largely in the north of the island and assessed 54 honeybee colonies. This was pretty good going as out of the four days he was here, it bucketed down for one and a […]
From – IOM Today Wednesday 04 March 2015
By Dave Kneale
Official recognition from the European Union that the island’s bee population is free of the deadly varroa mite was almost ten years in the making.
But for 79-year-old beekeeper Harry Owens, it’s the culmination of four decades of work as the island’s […]
