A new season starts at the apiary by checking the bees for food stores.
Feb 2024, still too cold to do an inspection, but on a good day the roofs can be removed to top up with fondant if necessary.
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Colourful bee hive!
Bee hive painted by a group called "Minding Mum" from the Waterside, Derry.
Kindly submitted by Liam Nelis.
Before the Easter break, beekeepers Barney and Thomas created a bit of Buzz when they visited Culmore Primary School to take part in their topic “It’s a Bugs Life”.
It's always a pleasure to visit schools and talk to the children about Bees and Beekeeping.
Year 3/4/5 had a busy 🐝afternoon learning all about bee keeping, as part of our topic ‘It’s a Bug’s Life’. Thank you so much to our fantastic visitors, Barney and Thomas. We enjoyed every minute of it 😃🐝 and learnt so, so much 😃
A great turnout last Wednesday28th Feb for the talk by Mark Wallace.
A new season starts at the apiary by checking the bees for food stores.
Feb 2024, still too cold to do an inspection, but on a good day the roofs can be removed to top up with fondant if necessary.
Members visiting the proposed apiary at
Acorn Farm, St Columb's Park
Our 2nd Open Day, May 2022.
What a day !! great craic, a constant flow of visitors, plenty of coffee and tray bakes, a dozen or more took up the offer to go into the apiary and were "buzzn" that they had, so much so we have a few new members. Big thanks has to go to all of our members who worked hard to pull it all together, we hope to do it all again very soon, see you then.
Click here for more photos of the day.
Click here to see photos of our first Open Day, August 14, 2021, to showcase the revamped apiary thanks to Connect 2021.
How’s this for beautifully painted boxes, from Liam Nelis St. Columbs Park House, who has just completed our preliminary beekeeping course.
It’s a hard graft! And requires some concentration. But our queen rearing is going well and we’re looking forward to starting the NIHBS programme queen rearing after practising with our own.
Hard at work erecting stands for queen rearing in the association's new out apiary, on a cold November day.
Dave Atherton's solar wax extractor Mark 2 anyone interested in more detail, get in touch,
Dave is happy to do a Masterclass.
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here to download a copy.
Billy Chambers working with bees and beginners
Here’s a pic of Cathy Mclaughlin, preliminary student about to do her first colony inspection.
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Derry & District Beekeepers' Association
C/O Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin
37 Great James Street, Derry
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