ARTICLES/VIDEOS/NEWSLETTERS

In this section, you will be able to view our educational STBA Fact Sheets and Newsletters.

Also various articles/news items/videos from bee health and safety to generel hints and tips that will benefit any existing or prospective beekeeper will be added consistently so please check back regularly!

STBA Fact Sheets

• Fact Sheet No. 1: First Steps in Keeping Bees
• Fact Sheet No. 2: Apiary Site: Where to locate your bees
• Fact Sheet No. 3: Choosing a Hive
• Fact Sheet No. 4: First Few Weeks of Beekeeping
  
• Fact sheet No. 5: Basic Technique for making up Nuclei
• Fact Sheet No. 6: Management of Nuclei to Turn them into Productive Colonies
• Fact sheet No. 7: The Beekeeping Year
• Fact Sheet No. 8 Spring Manmagement of Bees
  
• Fact Sheet No. 9: Hive Record Card
• Fact Sheet No. 10: Opening a Colony of Honeybees
  
• Fact Sheet No. 15: Sterlilzation of Combs/Bailey Frame Change
• Fact Sheet No. 30: Planting a Wild Garden 

 STBA Newsletters

• September 2009
• April Newsletter 2010
• September  Newsletter 2010
• April Newsletter 2011
• September Newsletter 2011

 Articles

• Giving the Bees More Space
• Wasps
• Basic Technique for Making Up a Nuclei
• Queen Cells
• The Art of Course Beekeeping
• Our President Honoured
• Winter in the Apiary
• Exocrine Glands
• Endocrine System
• Willie Robson Irish Lecture Tour Notes, Feb 2010
• Got Native Bees
• Origin of Bees
• AFB & EFB
• Preparing Bees for the Winter
  

• TV3 News Report on decline of honey bee population across Europe.
• RTE Bee Article
• RTE Ear to the Ground (Tom Prendergast Apperance)
• Denis Ryan (South Tipperary Heritage Week 2009)