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Waterford Honey Show 2022, takes place on Friday 9th September to Sunday 11th September 2022 at City Square, Shopping Centre, Judging by Redmond Williams and John Donoghue will commence at 2.00 pm Friday 9th September Admission is free East Waterford Beekeepers Association
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This video captured by Tristan Heth on the island of Tenerife, shows how stable air flows over a mountain range or simple convection can form waves in the clouds that resemble an ocean [source: buff.ly/3wLra2Q-, authors' IG: buff.ly/3kzaTZO] xitter.cf/pickover/status/144536…
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This video captured by Tristan Heth on the island of Tenerife, shows how stable air flows over a mountain range or simple convection can form waves in the clouds that resemble an ocean [source: buff.ly/3wLra2Q-, authors' IG: buff.ly/3kzaTZO] xitter.cf/pickover/status/144536…
Congratulations to the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Beekeepers associations who will be hosting the 49th international apicultural congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2025! #Apimondia2025
Text reads Apimondia 2025, Copenhagen

ALT Text reads Apimondia 2025, Copenhagen

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The world Bee keeping conference
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We are delighted to announce that our annual Biodiversity & Honey Show will take place from 9-11 September. Show brochure & full list of free family events to follow shortly. #phoenixparkbiofest
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Good morning beekeepers! This morning we share our new cover photo. For this year's World Bee Day we held a photo competition for children. This collage shows all the highly commended entries including the winners of the competition. The result of this was very impressive.
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Forage of the day: Charlock
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Fact of the day! With the blackberry making its way out early this year, we're nearly on the otherside of this years June gap.
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Good morning beekeepers 🐝 Enjoy this fact of the day about Bee Venom!
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What's the buzz? "Metarhizium is like a mold, not a mushroom. When spores land on a varroa mite, they germinate, drill into the mite, and proliferate, killing it from the inside out." sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Fungus fights mites that harm honey bees

A new fungus strain bred in a lab could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees. Varroa destructor mites play a large role in Colony Collapse Disorder, which...

sciencedaily.com
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Forage of the day... Phacelia! Shout out to our on-call botanist, Emma Reeves, for always providing us with wonderful information for our forage of the day each week.
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Learn something new about bees!
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Good morning beekeepers 🐝 Honeybees are the most important to us beekeepers, but do you know and can you identify all the other bees in Ireland? The link below discusses the 99 bee species in Ireland. rte.ie/learn/2021/0517/12221…

A newbie new bee - we now have 101 bee species in Ireland

Find out more about the different types of bees here thanks to our friends at the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.

rte.ie
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Good evening beekeepers 🐝 Congratulations to our beekeeper of the week.... JESS DOOLIN Thank you for sharing your beekeeping experience so far!
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Good afternoon beekeepers 🌻, It's not the best weather today for beekeeping but it is a good day to learn something about bees.
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Forage of the day! Honeybees love the horse chestnut. When you see your bees bringing in a "brick red" pollen you know they're on the horse chestnut. The flowers are just about finished now but it's a good tree to know about for your bees, if there are any in the area.
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Good afternoon beekeepers ☺ Did you know this fact about bees? . . Topic = The Mandibular Gland
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Good afternoon beekeepers 🐝 Today we announce our beekeeper of the week... Rebecca Newenham from Coolmore bees
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