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 NEW COLONIES!
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
TELL US HOW free-living BEES ARE DOING.
Education
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.
FREE-B
FREE-B Studying FREE-living honey Bee colonies in Europe: nature-based solutions to safeguard diversity, ensure resilience, and promote transformative change in beekeeping.
National Apiculture Programme
We are a collaborator/partner on the NAP, which is led by Dr Julia Jones at UCD.
The NAP is joint funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine and the European Union.
nationalapicultureprogramme.com
SWARM
Sustainable ways to advance reproductive management in honey bees
Given the high levels of annual colony losses reported around the world, there is a critical need to develop best management practices that suit the needs of each locality, and ultimately optimizes colony survivorship.