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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
