Welcome To

GALWAY HONEY BEE RESEARCH CENTre

About Us

We are a group of academics, researchers, students, technical officers and beekeepers based in Galway, West Coast of Ireland.

Know of any free living honeybee colonies?

HELP SUPPORT THE PROJECT & REPORT THEM!

For the Republic of Ireland, please head to the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) website to report

If you live in the UK or Northern Ireland, you can now report free-living colonies using our reporting tool

Education

Learn more about our ever expanding educational resources.

We are enthusiastic about education

Our current research projects

Wild Honey Bee Study

Through citizen science, and in collaboration with the Irish National Biodiversity Data Centre, we are discovering the number and distribution of free-living honey colonies in Ireland.

Outside the Box

With this project we aim to better understand how Irish free-living honey bee colonies are able to survive, unaided, outside of conventional beekeeping settings.

We're also beekeepers ourselves!

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We enjoy the practice of beekeeping through minimally managing (primarily swarm control) 10-20 colonies of Apis mellifera mellifera at our main campus apiary and satellite apiary. We do not chemically treat our colonies and they are primarily research hives.