NAP 23-27 Partners
Prof Grace McCormack, University of Galway
Dr Blanaid White, DCU
Dr Nicholas Brereton, UCD
Dr Emmanuel Gonzalez, McGill University
Dr Dara Stanley, UCD
Irish Beekeeping Group Reps
Native Irish Honey Bee Society – NAP liaison= Karin Stierle
Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations – NAP liaison= Paul Boyle
Irish Beekeepers Association– NAP liaison = Caroline McDonald
Irish Bee Foundation– NAP liaison = Gus McCoy
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Programme Tasks 2023-2027
TASK 1. To provide technical and advisory assistance to beekeepers and beekeeping organisations
TASK 2. Provision and distribution of free-beekeeping resources related to beekeeping in Ireland
TASK 3. Combat beehive invaders and diseases, particularly Varroosis(a): Field trials of alternative Varroa control methods and tests of co-infection of emerging pathogens
TASK 4. (b): Varroa treatment-free colony assessment and daughter colony rearing
TASK 5. (c): Pollen nutrition quality evaluation
TASK 6. (d): Nutrition – functional metagenomics
TASK 7. Continue Ireland’s participation in the COLOSS network
TASK 8. Investigation of possible reasons for colony losses (a): microbiome perturbation
TASK 9. Investigation of possible reasons for colony losses (b): pesticides in comb wax
TASK 10. Establish incidence of American Foulbrood and European Foulbrood across Ireland, and determine factors that lead to clinical infections
TASK 11. Test of the American Foulbrood vaccine