Jack Hassett, who is pursing his doctorate at Limerick Institute of Technology, will be giving an update on his DNA analysis of the native bee population throughout the island of Ireland on the morning of Saturday 10th February. NIHBS has been part funding this work for several years.
Jack who is from Thurles, Tipperary, sampled 300 hives from 80 sites.
Watch out for his paper on the Irish bee population which is through peer review and will be published shortly in the IBRA Journal, The Journal of Apicultural Research.