Advisory Leaflets, Beekeeping Training Manuals & Fact Sheets

Advisory Leaflets:

• Managing Varroa pdf (Last updated June 2018);
• Small Hive Beetle pdf (Last updated April 2017);
• Foulbrood Disease of Honey Bees pdf (Last updated April 2017);
• Tropilaelaps: Parasitic Mites of Honey Bees pdf (Last updated April 2017);
• Starting Right with Bees pdf (Last updated December 2016) ;
• Statutory Procedures Advisory Leaflet pdf (Last updated June 2017) – Please note this leaflet is only available as a pdf;
• Contingency Planning Procedures Leaflet pdf (Last updated November 2017) – Please note this leaflet is only available as a pdf;
  
• Common Pests, Diseases and Disorders of the Adult Honey Bee pdf (Last updated June 2017) – Please note this leaflet is only available as a pdf;
• The National Bee Unit pdf (Last updated May 2009) – Please note this leaflet is only available as a pdf.

Best Practice Guidelines:

The National Bee Unit has put together a series of Best Practice Guidelines, which will cover the essentials of the craft of beekeeping. These are available below:

• Best Practice Guideline No. 1 – The Essence of Beekeeping (Updated June 2018)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 2 – Handling and Examining a colony of bees (created August 2011)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 3 – Apiary and hive hygiene (updated September 2011)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 4 – Disease recognition (created August 2011)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 5 – Advice for obtaining honey bees  (created August 2011)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 6 – Spring Checks  (updated June 2018)
• Best Practice Guidelines No. 7 a) – Feeding Bees – sugar (created July 2012)
  b) – Feeding Bees – water (created July 2012)
  c) – Feeding Bees – pollen and substitutes (created July 2012)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 8 – Sale of Honeybee Nuclei (created March 2012)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 9 – Small hive beetle – What you need to know (created April 2012)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 10 – Bee Improvement (created July 2012)
• Best Practice Guideline No. 11 – Varroa (created July 2012)