*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…
Hello Westport Beekeepers. I hope ye had a good summer and that your bees are doing well, despite the weird weather. I would like to invite you to our first post-summer meeting of 2023. It will be held at the Westport Teagasc Centre on Tuesday September 5th and will commence at 8.00 pm. Our guest speaker…
…The flowers are blooming, and the pollinators are hard at work. In addition, starting around mid-May honeybees may be swarming. This is quite natural. Some view a bee colony as akin to a collective organism. This ‘organism’ collects nectar and pollen to feed on, to rear its young bees, and to store away for the…
Professor Grace McCormack, UCG WBKA last club meeting before the summer break on Tuesday June 6th @ 8pm, Teagasc Centre, Westport. Professor McCormack will introduce her team’s work on using multiple methods to investigate adaptation in Irish honeybees. Focused on wild colonies they want to understand their survival in the wild despite the presence of…
Teagasc Westport at 8PM We will be welcoming Jude Walsh, Ballina Beekeepers, who is a commercial beekeeper. He will be speaking about his *Experience in Beekeeping* This should be an interesting talk on apiculture. Look forward to seeing you there.
We the Westport Beekeepers plan to present a Beekeeping Beginners Course starting Saturday morning 4th March @ 9.30am at the Teagasc Centre, Westport, for the introduction lectures and practical’s, then afterwards during March on Monday evenings online 8-10pm using Zoom platform to deliver the remainder virtually. To register for the course you will have to…
Speaker: Dr Mary Coffey, Bee Disease Diagnostic Service, Teagasc, will give a talk on Bee and Brood Diagnostics, starting at 8pm sharp in the Teagasc Centre, Newport Road, Westport. F28 W681. Everybody is welcome.
Election of a new committee takes place at the AGM/ November’s meeting.Thank you to all the club members who made an effort to attend meetings and club outings this past year, we appreciate your effort. We hope the future will continue to improve so we can get back to practical beekeeping again at the clubs…
We the Westport Beekeepers are planning to present a Beekeeping Beginners Course over 7 evenings starting @ 8.00pm from 20th – 26th March 2022 (every evening) using Zoom 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…
We are very pleased to let you know that the Westport Beekeepers Association will finally recommence having in-person meetings again! back at our usual venue the “Teagasc Centre, Newport Road, Westport”. F28 W681. Our first meeting of 2022 is scheduled for Tuesday 15th February @ 8PM Fingers crossed there won’t be any hiccups! Looking forward to…