Advisory leaflets provide an in-depth look at a subject. Our ‘Starting right with bees’ leaflet provides everything a beginner beekeeper, or yet-to-be beekeeper, needs to know to get started with their new hobby. Specific pest and disease leaflets provide detailed and up-to-date information on the biology of causative agents of disease, and provide methods for prevention and treatment.

Best practice guides provide a short overview of the best practices in an easy to digest bullet-pointed format. These guides cover many topics from the very basics on how to handle and examine colonies of honey bees, how to obtain honey bees, through to feeding and bee improvement.

Fact sheets provide a detailed explanation about how to perform specific tasks (such as queen-trapping or shook swarming) or detail key pieces of information on a topic that beekeepers might need to know about, for example, bee medicines or bumble bees.

Training videos give excellent practical demonstrations of a variety of beekeeping activities hosted by experienced NBU inspectors on our YouTube channel. Topics include: how to scorch hives, how to make sugar syrup for feeding, how to perform an alcohol wash for monitoring Varroa and many more.

Presentations are comprehensive science talks on various topics including; Asian hornet biology and genetics, European foulbrood and small hive beetle.

International beekeeping training manuals: multi-lingual beekeeping field manuals available to aid trainers in sub-Saharan Africa.