Ger Coyne and Davy Geoghegan from the Connemara Beekeepers Association gave a talk at the February meeting about the Artificial Swarm Control and demonstrate same to a large audience. Ger also explained how he is trying to continue rearing the native Irish black bee throughout Connemara. A struggle to do so with many elements fighting against him, weather and the varroa mite are amongst the greatest treats!
Davy talked about the ROSE HIVE which he fancies for its simplicity and has phased it into his apiaries over the last number of years, experiments carried out proved to him that they are more suited to his method of beekeeping; one size box suits all, the same with frames. He told us about its pros and cons and the suitability of this smaller hive for use in the West of Ireland!
