Reference information on beekeeping topics

Reference information

• The Apiary Calendar - what to do each month
• Why and how to keep hive records.
• All about Queen Rearing.
• Looking after your bees - ​Bee Health
• Dave Cushman's encyclopedic web site - possibly the most information about bees available in one spot
• Beespoke.info - an Irish site with a huge amount of useful information

Beekeeping associations

• Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations (FIBKA)
• Native Irish Honey Bee Society (NIHBS)
• The County Dublin Beekeepers Association
• Armagh and Monaghan Beekeepers' Association
• Ulster Beekeepers Association
• The British Beekeepers Association

​Bee Journals & Organisations

• Galtee Bee Breeding Group
• Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA)
• BeeCraft 
• Bees for Development 
• Bees Abroad 
• International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (IJEST) 
• International Bee Research Association (IBRA) 
• The Beekeepers Quarterly 

Government

• Ireland: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - Beekeeping and Honey
• Heath Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) -  approved treatments
• UK: National Bee Unit - BeeBase

Beekeeping Supplies:

• Irish Bee Supplies (local supplier based near Ardee, Co. Louth - Map)
• Bee Supplies (Dublin)
• Dingle Beekeeping Supplies (Kerry)
• MacEoin Honey (Cork)
• Donegal Bees (Donegal)
• Mill Lane Beekeeping (Leitrim)
• Thornes (UK)

Environment

• Biodiversity Ireland - register your sightings of wildlife here
• All-Ireland Pollinator Plan - for gardens, schools, churches, farms, business, councils, rail & motorways, communities
• Ava's Flowers

Miscellaneous

• UK-based Beekeeping forum
• All About Bees - Collection of Melittology Resources
• Beekeeping facts for kids