World Bee Day - are you BeeConnected?

20 May 2025

BeeConnected – bringing farmers and beekeepers together, and keeping beekeepers notified when a neighbouring farmer is applying insecticides to their crops.

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May 20th is World Bee Day.  Have you heard of our initiative BeeConnected?  This innovative system uses Googlemaps to match farmers with local beekeepers. When a farmer is thinking of applying an insecticide, the system looks for beekeepers in a 5 km radius and sends them a message allowing them to close or move their hive. It’s free, quick and easy to use and totally anonymous.  Beekeepers don’t know exactly which field will be sprayed and farmers don’t know the exact location of any hives.

Farmers & Spray Contractors
Please register as a farmer, enter the details of when and where you're planning to spray an insecticide that may present a risk to bees (for instance on a flowering crop, or where the field has a conservation buffer strip), and a simple notification will be sent to neighbouring beekeepers registered with the system.  NRoSO members can now claim 2 CPD points per year for registering and using BeeConnected.  See the FAQ's for details.

Beekeepers
Please register as a beekeeper, enter the position of your hives on our easy to use mapping system, and you will receive notifications from registered farmers when they are planning to spray their crops at a proximity of your choosing up to 5km away.