Bee Improvement & Bee Breeders Association

The National Bee Improvement Programme (NatBIP) is an initiative organised by the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders’ Association (BIBBA), with the aims of reducing the number of imports of honey bees into Britain, Ireland and associated islands* and of improving the quality of our honey bees. This Programme aims to provide a way forward to a stable and sustainable future for our beekeeping ...READ MORE

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The use of imported queens may provide temporary relief to issues of quality in our bees but have not provided stability within the population as a whole ...