Beekeeping Best Practice Guides/Advisories/Fact Sheets – The Full FERA Bee Unit List

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A comprehensive listing of useful documents, all available to view or download from the FERA websites.

• Best Practice Guideline   No. 1 –      The Essence of Beekeeping
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 2 –      Handling and Examining a colony of bees
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 3 –      Apiary and hive hygiene
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 4 –     Disease recognition
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 5 –      Advice for obtaining honey bees 
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 6 –     Spring Checks 
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 7
  • 7a) – Feeding Bees – sugar
  • 7b) – Feeding Bees – water
  • 7c) – Feeding Bees – pollen and substitutes
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 8 –      Sale of Honeybee Nuclei
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 9 –      Small hive beetle – What you need to know
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 10 –    Bee Improvement
• Best Practice Guideline   No. 11 –     Varroa
• Hive Record Card (pdf)
• How to Perform an Artificial Swarm For Varroa Control (pdf)

Advisory Leaflets:

• Managing Varroa (pdf)
• Small Hive Beetle (pdf)
• Foul brood Disease of Honey Bees (pdf)
• Tropilaelaps: Parasitic Mites of Honey Bees (pdf)
• The National Bee Unit (pdf)
• Oxalic Acid Cleansing (pdf)

Fact Sheets:

• Apiary Hygiene and Quarantine (pdf)
• Artificial Swarm (pdf)
• Asian Hornet Trap (pdf)
• Bee Medicaments (pdf)
• Beltsville Test (pdf)
• Bumblebees (pdf)
• Celle Rotation (pdf)
• Containing Disease (pdf)
• Disease Liaison Co-Ordinators (pdf)
• Disinfection (pdf)
• Drone Brood Removal (pdf)
• EFB Control (pdf)
• Estimating Varroa Populations (pdf)
• Fumigating Comb (pdf)
• Helping Bees (pdf)
• Hive Cleaning and Sterilisation (pdf) 
• Integrated Pest Management and Acarine (pdf)
• Integrated Pest Management for Varroa Control (pdf)
• Open Mesh Floors (pdf)
• OTC Treatments (pdf)
• Plastic Hives (pdf)
• PDB and Napthalene (pdf)
• Preparing honey bee colonies for winter (pdf)
• Pyrethroid Resistance (pdf)
• Replacing Comb (pdf)
• Queen Trapping (pdf)
• Second-hand Equipment (pdf)
• Shook Swarm (pdf), Care of Colonies after Shook Swarm (pdf)
• Simple Integrated Pest Management for Varroa Control (pdf)
• Small Hive Beetle Control (pdf)
• Swarm Control (when you can’t see the Queen) (pdf)
• Value of Pollination (pdf)
• Varroa Control: Using Organic Acids (pdf)
• Wax Moth (pdf)
• Wasps (pdf)