The National Bee Unit has put together a series of Best Practice Guidelines, which will cover the essentials of the craft of beekeeping. These are available below:
- Best Practice Guideline No. 1 - The Essence of Beekeeping (Updated June 2018)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 2 - Handling and Examining a colony of bees (created August 2011)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 3 - Apiary and hive hygiene (updated September 2011)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 4 - Disease recognition (created August 2011)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 5 - Advice for obtaining honey bees (created August 2011)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 6 - Spring Checks (updated June 2018)
- Best Practice Guidelines No. 7:
- a) - Feeding Bees - sugar (created July 2012)
- b) - Feeding Bees - water (created July 2012)
- c) - Feeding Bees - pollen and substitutes (created July 2012)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 8 - Sale of Honeybee Nuclei (created March 2012)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 9 - Small hive beetle - What you need to know (created April 2012)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 10 - Bee Improvement (created July 2012)
- Best Practice Guideline No. 11 - Varroa (updated April 2024)