Live Apiary Inspections Report

Please note this page lists unique apiary visits only therefore if an apiary is visited more than once in a season it will only count once.

Apiary Inspections and Foulbrood Disease in England, Scotland and Wales for 2026						Year:
Region	County	Apiaries Inspected	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB
North West England	Cheshire	22	0	0	0	0
	Cumbria	33	1	0	3.03	0
	Derbyshire	112	0	9	0	8.04
	Greater Manchester	12	0	0	0	0
	Lancashire	93	3	5	3.23	5.38
	Merseyside	26	1	0	3.85	0
	West Yorkshire	181	6	12	3.31	6.63
Western England	Gloucestershire	44	0	5	0	11.36
	Herefordshire	57	0	2	0	3.51
	Shropshire	6	0	0	0	0
	Staffordshire	8	0	0	0	0
	Warwickshire	57	0	7	0	12.28
	West Midlands	13	0	0	0	0
	Worcestershire	32	0	3	0	9.38
North East England	County Durham	8	0	0	0	0
	East Yorkshire	24	0	1	0	4.17
	Lincolnshire	102	0	6	0	5.88
	North Yorkshire	130	0	4	0	3.08
	Northumberland	5	1	0	20	0
	Nottinghamshire	96	0	3	0	3.13
	South Yorkshire	20	0	0	0	0
	Tyne & Wear	3	0	0	0	0
Eastern England	Bedfordshire	6	0	0	0	0
	Cambridgeshire	115	0	20	0	17.39
	Essex	56	0	9	0	16.07
	Hertfordshire	22	0	0	0	0
	Norfolk	87	1	13	1.15	14.94
	Suffolk	107	0	17	0	15.89
South West England	Avon	54	0	5	0	9.26
	Cornwall	71	0	4	0	5.63
	Devon	125	0	5	0	4
	Scilly Isles	9	0	0	0	0
	Somerset	157	0	10	0	6.37
Central England	Berkshire	32	0	1	0	3.13
	Buckinghamshire	9	0	1	0	11.11
	Dorset	67	0	3	0	4.48
	Hampshire	137	0	13	0	9.49
	Isle of Wight	14	0	0	0	0
	Leicestershire	39	0	0	0	0
	Northamptonshire	13	0	2	0	15.38
	Oxfordshire	90	0	3	0	3.33
	Rutland	1	0	0	0	0
	Wiltshire	37	0	2	0	5.41
South East England	East Sussex	65	0	8	0	12.31
	Greater London	90	0	8	0	8.89
	Kent	132	0	16	0	12.12
	Surrey	73	0	2	0	2.74
	West Sussex	42	0	2	0	4.76
English Totals		2734	13	201	0.48	7.35

Region	County	Apiaries Inspected	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB
Scotland	Aberdeenshire	72	1	16	1.39	22.22
	Angus	79	0	11	0	13.92
	Ayrshire	1	0	0	0	0
	Dumfriesshire	21	0	4	0	19.05
	East Lothian	8	0	1	0	12.5
	Fife	29	0	1	0	3.45
	Inverness	1	0	0	0	0
	Kinross	5	0	0	0	0
	Midlothian	57	0	6	0	10.53
	Perthshire	172	0	22	0	12.79
	Ross and Cromarty	3	0	0	0	0
	Scottish Borders	2	0	0	0	0
	Stirling	2	0	0	0	0
	West Lothian	23	0	0	0	0
Scottish Totals		475	1	61	0.21	12.84

Region	County	Apiaries Inspected	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	No. of Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for AFB	Percent of Inspected Apiaries Diagnosed Positive for EFB
Wales	Clwyd	56	0	7	0	12.5
	Dyfed	190	1	1	0.53	0.53
	Gwent	5	0	2	0	40
	Gwynedd	34	0	0	0	0
	Mid Glamorgan	50	0	5	0	10
	Powys	47	0	0	0	0
	South Glamorgan	13	0	1	0	7.69
	West Glamorgan	61	0	4	0	6.56
Welsh Totals		456	1	20	0.22	4.39