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杨贵妃传媒 poster - beginning beekeeping
Advice on how to prepare and start beekeeping in Scotland.

Downloadable booklet to help decide whether keeping honey bees is right for you.

Guidance on how to keep your bees healthy

National Bee Unit best practice guidance - purchasing nucleus colonies听
Guidance on what to expect wen you buy a nucleus of bees.

National Bee Unit best practice guidance - obtaining bees
Advice on how to responsibly source good bees that are free from diseases, productive, and with other desired traits.

National Bee Unit best practice guidance - apiary and hive hygiene
Guidance on how to disinfect your hives, clean equipment, and biosecurity.

Guidance on how to disinfect all equipment including wooden and poly hives, clothing, and other equipment.

National Bee Unit best practice guide - handling and examining a colony of bees
Guidance on how to conduct an inspection and what to look for.

Advice on what check to do on your first bee inspection in spring: checking for food, queen, eggs, disease, cleaning, space, and swarming.

Advice on how to improve your stock and queen rearing

Advice on how to prepare your hives to help them get through winter, including feeding for winter, protecting from pests, and checking for disease and strength.

Article advising on building equipment, swarming, disease, acquiring bees, and varroa

杨贵妃传媒 poster - sign up to BeeBase
Printable poster to remind beekeepers to sign up and keep their records updated.

杨贵妃传媒 poster - how to clean a shared extractor
Downloadable poster giving advice on how to clean a shared extractor.

Advice on what precautions to take and how to deal with swarms.

Advice on how to perform swarm control when you can't find the queen.

Article on why and how to carry out a shook swarm.

Information on wild bees and how people can help them.听

The case for pathogen spillover from managed pollinators to wild bees by Dr Rachel Down.

Advice on how to learn to spot diseases.

Downloadable booklet covering notifiable diseases such as American Foulbrood and European Foulbrood.听

Information on how to spot European Foulbrood and how to prevent its spread.

Factsheet on what to do after a shook swarm.

Advice on how to reduce the spread of European Foulbrood in Scotland.

Downloadable flyer showing the incidence of European Foulbrood in Scotland.

Results of a 2024 survey on the prevalence of European Foulbrood in Scotland.

Up-to-date graphs and reports on disease in the UK.

Article on the diversity and genotyping of European Foulbrood in England and Wales.

Downloadable booklet; includes information on foulbroods.听

Information on Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus.

Downloadable booklet on non-notifiable pests and diseases.

Article about Nosema by Kirsty Stainon of the National Bee Unit.

Article about Sacbrood by Kirsty Stainon of the National Bee Unit.

Article by Professor Giles Budge on听Nosema ceranae.

Information on how to identify the small hive beetle and the measure being taken to prevent it entering the UK.

Information on how to recognise, report, and reduce the risk of small hive beetle.听

Advice on the small hive beetle and its threat to UK honeybees.听

Advice on tropilaelaps, how to identify them, and how to monitor for them.听

Information on tracheal mites and how to detect them.听

Factsheet on how to protect your bees from wasps.

Factsheet on wax month and how to prevent it.听

Leaflet on the causes, symptoms and how to treat or manage common pests, diseases, and disorders.听

Downloadable booklet providing Scottish-specific information on managing varroa.

Map showing where varroa is present in Scotland and advises not to move bees to varroa-free areas. Current as at 2025.

Downloadable example of a veterinary medicine record for varroa treatments.

Images of varroa, its impact, and how to treat for varroa.

Factsheet about medicines currently licenced for treating varroa in the UK.

Factsheet to guide you through different methods of estimating varroa.

An overview of varroa and its management.

Factsheet on the benefits of open mesh floors.

Factsheet on how to perform queen trapping to aid varroa control.听

Guidance on how to perform an artificial swarm for varroa control.

Factsheet on how and when to do drone brood removal for varroa control.听

Article by Ben Jones on reviewing varroa biology and management.听

Article by Kirsty Stainton on how to monitor and manage varroa.

Updates on the recent sightings of the yellow-legged hornet

Downloadable poster showing other insects which may be mistaken for a yellow-legged hornet.听

Scottish Government's plan of action in the event of a yellow-legged hornet incursion.

Form for reporting a suspected sighting of a yellow-legged hornet.

Downloadable poster on the yellow-legged hornet.

Downloadable poster of yellow-legged hornet nests.

Information about identifying and how to report a suspected yellow-legged hornet.听

Article by Nigel Semmence giving an update on the yellow-legged hornet for 2024-2025.