The National Bee Unit has put together a series of Advisory Leaflets, Best Practice Guidelines and Fact Sheets which are available for downloading to your computer by clicking on the links below:
We recommend that you explore the National Bee Unit website and if you keep bees and haven't already done so, then please sign up to BeeBase here.
NBU Advisory Leaflets
- Managing Varroa (Last updated January 2020)
- Small Hive Beetle (Last updated April 2017)
- Foulbrood Disease of Honey Bees (Last updated Apri 2017)
- Tropilaelaps: Parasitic Mites of Honey Bees (Last updated April 2017)
- Starting Right with Bees (Last updated December 2016)
- Statutory Procedures Advisory Leaflet (Last updated June 2017)
- Contingency Planning Procedures Leaflet (Last updated November 2017)
- Common Pests, Diseases and Disorders of the Adult Honey Bee (Last updated June 2017)
- The National Bee Unit(Last updated May 2009)
Best Practice Guidelines
- The Essence of Beekeeping (Updated February 2014)
- Handling and Examining a colony of bees (created August 2011)
- Apiary and hive hygiene (updated September 2011)
- Disease recognition (created August 2011)
- Advice for obtaining honey bees (created August 2011)
- Spring Checks (updated February 2014)
- Feeding Bees - sugar (created July 2012)
- Feeding Bees - water (created July 2012)
- Feeding Bees - pollen and substitutes (created July 2012)
- Sale of Honeybee Nuclei (created March 2012)
- Small hive beetle - What you need to know (created April 2012)
- Bee Improvement (created July 2012)
- Varroa (created July 2012)
Fact Sheets
- A Simple Asian Hornet Monitoring Trap
- Acarine (Tracheal Mites)
- Apiary Hygiene and Quarantine (updated 2020)
- Bee Medicines (updated 2020)
- Bee Safari's (updated 2020)
- Bees
- Beltsville and Pyrethroid Resistance Testing
- Bumblebees
- Care of Colonies After Shook Swarms
- Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus
- Control of European Foulbrood
- Control of Small Hive Beetle
- Estimating Varroa mite populations
- Fumigating Comb
- Helping Bees
- Hive Cleaning and Sterilisation
- Open Mesh Floors
- Oxytetracycline Treatment of Colonies with European Foulbrood
- Preparing Your Colonies for Winter
- Queen Trapping
- Replacing Old Brood Comb
- Shook Swarming
- Solitary Bees
- Swarm Control When You Can't Find the Queen
- Using Artificial Swarming for Varroa Control
- Using Drone Brood Removal for Varroa Control
- Using Integrated Pest Management for Varroa Control
- Veterinary Medicines Administration Record
- Wasps
- Wax Moth