Working hard to conserve and protect The Native Irish Honey Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera

Ireland
Joined June 2019
The NIHBS & SICAMM Conference 2027 will bring people from across Ireland and Europe together to explore how we can conserve, study and improve the future of this remarkable bee.
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The National Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed a sighting of an Asian Hornet at Ringaskiddy, Cork. (29th September)
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We are delighted that NIHBS and the honey produced by Beekeepers working with Native Irish Honey Bees has come to the attention of Georgina Campbell and we are honoured by this award. Karin Stierle and Kieran Harnett representing both NIHBS and natural food producers.
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(Hannas Bees)These past few weeks, there has been so much talk about honey in the media. As a result, more people are looking for local beekeepers to buy their honey from instead of reaching for imported supermarket honey.
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How long can Ireland afford to wait to protect its Native Honey Bee? Now that more consumers are reading honey labels and paying attention to where their honey comes from, you may have noticed that some honeys explicitly say that they have been produced by Native Irish Honey Bees
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next time you see “Produced by Native Irish Honey Bees” on a jar of Irish honey. It tells you that the honey was produced by our native honeybee — a bee that we still have an opportunity to protect, but only if we actually take action while we still can.
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But you may wonder why this is important. After all, honey is honey, right? Technically, yes, honey is honey. As long as it is made by honeybees, there is nothing to say that honey produced by one type of honeybee is better than that produced by another.
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The Phoenix Park Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show returns this Saturday, 5 September, for its 10th year. phoenixpark.ie/?fbclid=IwY2x…
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Native Irish Honey Bee Society retweeted
UPDATED We had some technical issues with the new Biosecurity Awareness Course, which has now been updated. To enroll on the new Biosecurity Awareness Course follow the link below: learn.biodiversityireland.ie… #biosecurity #elearning #onlinecourse #conservation
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