By the 1980s Buckfast bees were sold across the world. Bee breeders are rare. Brother Adam had become something even rarer: an apiculture celebrity.

Beekeepers who helped introduce around 60,000 ‘Buckfast bees’ to Lanarkshire have been awarded £20,090 from The People’s Projects competition. The Big Lottery Fund teamed up with ITV and ...

AROUND 5000 “ Buckfast bees” have been killed – after mindless vandals targeted their hives. The yobs discovered hives set up by a community project involving schoolkids, housing bees first ...

Buckfast Bees are known to be good at collecting pollen. They're gentle, disease-resistant and not so likely to swarm. Brother Adam kept working until he was 93 but his death in 1996 meant ...

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Buckfast bees were originally developed by Brother Adam, a monk at Buckfast Abbey in England. In 1919, he created a strain that’s now known for its gentle nature and disease resistance.

Last week the Buckfast monks and lay brothers busied themselves redding up the abbey as well as performing their usual work at their beehives and their huge wine casks (they sell honey, market a ...

"This could be destroyed by importing other honey bees from abroad like the Italian honey bee or buckfast." Prof McCormack also believes legislation is necessary in protecting the native Irish ...