The Healing Bee by Roch Domerego from Northern Bee Books €10 approx. www.northernbeebooks.co.uk

ICA Home & Living Magazine is proving to be a very useful recruitment tool, according to member feedback received by national president Marie O’Toole, which she shares in the foreword to the third issue of the magazine.

Defences against the spread of the small hive beetle, a major threat to bee colonies and stored honey, have been strengthened across Ireland, it was revealed yesterday.

Irish beekeepers have welcomed an EU ban on three pesticides which are being blamed for the deaths of millions of bees worldwide.