Our December meeting is December 3rd at the Teagasc Centre, commencing at 8pm. Sheila Murphy, Mayo County Council Biodiversity Officer, will talk about what Mayo CoCo is doing and how this is important for us. This is something different from our usual talks and sounds to be very worthwhile so come along. It is now time…
Election of a new committee takes place at the AGM/ November’s meeting.Thanks to all the club members who attended meetings during this past year, we appreciate your effort. We hope more members will continue to come to our monthly meetings! usually 10 during the beekeeping year and also we especially need more to attend the…
Hi all. Hope the summer was kind to your bees despite the weird weather and have survived everything that was thrown at them? I would like to invite you to our first post-summer meeting of 2024. It will be held at the Westport Teagasc Centre on Tuesday September 3rd and will commence at 8.00 pm. Our…
This is just a quick reminder that our next meeting will be tomorrow evening at 20:00 at Teagasc as usual. Ger Hyland will be talking to us about queen rearing and the use of Apideas. Looking forward to seeing you there.
We welcome everyone to our next Beekeepers meeting in the Teagasc Center, Westport, Mayo on the 2nd of April. The meeting topic will be: *The Asian Hornet and its Threat to the Native Black Bee* Speaker is Mary Walsh, who gave a talk about the Asian Hornet to the Mayo Beekeepers in Ballina recently. This…
Our next meeting is coming up over the horizon and I hope we will be able to welcome you there once again. It will be on March 5th at the Teagasc Centre, as usual. We will be welcoming our member Colm Keane, who will be talking to us about the use of an EpiPen (in…
We the Westport Beekeepers are planning to present a Beekeeping Beginners Course over 8 evenings starting @ 7.00pm from 4th March 2024 using an online platform to deliver it virtually. To register for the course you will have to become a member of the Westport Beekeepers Association. Please fill out the attached application form, pay…
Next meeting Tuesday February 6th. Ger Hyland will talk about what treatments certified by the department of agriculture are available for use for the control of verroa and how to administer it properly according to the instructions.
We the Westport Beekeepers are planning to provide a Beekeeping Beginners Course again this year 2024 (date and times to be announced later). If you are interested in taking part in the course email the club secretary with your contact information for to be on the Beekeeping Beginners Course as soon as possible. [email protected].
*Our final meeting of 2023 is coming up on December 5th 2023* Club member Henry Horkan will talk about his experience of making and working his bees in his “Top Bar Hives” This should be an interesting presentation all about the advantages and disadvantages of the Top Bar Hive. We also will talk about what…