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A box of baker's fondant (honey shown for scale) February is just round the corner and still the beekeeper in Ireland does not feel that winter has really arrived. The mild weather means that many honeybee colonies have been more active that usual over the last few months – and in consequence require extra [...] The 24 jar class Finally, the Dublin Honey Show is upon us. The cups are polished and ready for this year’s winners, the Dublin Beekeepers’ Association honey is bottled and labelled ready for sale, the volunteers are all signed up and ready to make the show run like clockwork, and throughout the county and [...] Once again, FIBKA have been invited to exhibit at the June bank holiday ‘Bloom’ show in the Phoenix Park which runs from Thursday 2nd to bank holiday Monday 6th June. The County Dublin Beekeeepers’ Association and our friends the Fingal Beekeepers will run the stand on behalf of FIBKA. We’ll be there for the entire [...] …and this one’s not an April Fool!
The film ‘colony’ will be shown at the Botanic Gardens this weekend. Here’s the announcement: “There will be a screening of the film ‘COLONY’ at the Lecture Theatre National Botanic Gardens next Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd April at 2.30pm both days. This [...] Apis mellifera octopedis. The fourth leg is just visible on the left. 1st April, Dublin Reports have reached the Co. Dublin beekeepers’ association that a mutant strain of eight-legged honeybees have been positively identified in feral honeybee colonies in the Dublin Mountains. The new strain, provisionally named Apis mellifera octopedis is being studied by [...] |
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