'We have established a conservation area for our native Irish honey bee within the 100 acres of Hillsborough'
Beekeepers at Hillsborough Castle are buzzing about the hiving success of their once thought extinct native Irish honey bees.
“Over a long period of time, a lot of work by founding members of the Native Irish Honey Bee Society and research by universities at Cork and Dublin, they have been able to prove there were still little pockets of areas where it did still exist. “They have no orange bands on them, their abdomens are striped but not ringed. They are a bit smaller than other types of honey bee subspecies.
“A queen could mate with another sub species and then the workers she produces would be like a hybrid type bee so without the breeding programmes and the work of NIHBS, this strain of honeybee and all those genetics would effectively become more reduced if we didn’t have some areas of conservation.”
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