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It's fine raising this here, but, its the beginners who may not be reading this forum who won't have been fore-warned. They'll get a shock when it comes to bees next year.

Yes. These are changes that will occur next year, but there are others already being implemented as indicated above. Perhaps one change which may not be appreciated by members of this forum, but one that will affect me (but probably customers of imported queens too) is that any delay in the...

Prices will have to go up or there will be a shortage.

Would you recommend different feeds Dani? I've been looking at keeping quail (they have interesting genetics) and turkey starter is recommended for them as it contains up to 30% protein.

You're right. It's not instead of the SBI visit. It's as well as the sbi visit! The point is that this is just one of the additional costs we're encountering. All down the line, there are new "requirements" that add cost to the final product. It doesn't matter if the news comes out in "dribs &...

I'd suggest that this is a question that Dani might answer. Given her background as a vet, it's right up her street.

It varies depending on where you are and what tests you have done.

My understanding is that sending in cages/attendants only applies to queens imported into the UK. My point is that nothing has changed, but now the NBU are going to have lots of cages/attendants to examine. Do you really think they will? or is this another bit of pointless bureaucracy? Is this...

I'm expecting some queens to be arrive rom the EU (Netherlands) early next week so I've duly applied for an import number. Then I received this: " Dear Importer. Thank you for logging your intent to import honey bees via the IPAFFS System. Please continue to use the IPAFFS system to upload any...

That's difficult to answer from the information you've provided. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that the frame you transferred to the nuc wasn't just nurse bees. I suspect there were foragers among them. These older foragers are closely attached to their old queen and can be very hostile...

Almost immediately. You'll hear the pitch change.

What makes you think she is mated already? Queens require 6 days to become sexually mature, then it will be a few days before she mates and starts laying eggs (which you can't be sure they're workers until they are sealed). I think you're rushing this a little.

I believe you...particularly the bit about fairies. "I do. I do. I do believe in fairies!" :ROFLMAO:

Errr...ok. That was more than I expected ;)

I never quite understood that. Elder is common. It's everywhere - so why would an elder wand be special?

Wait.....that would make you a witch, wouldn't it? I thought you were a vet :ROFLMAO:

I think the weakness in your approach is expecting the queen to stay in the mating nuc for a whole brood cycle (21 days from oviposition). You'll need to move them out of the mating nuc before the eggs are even hatched - there just isn't the space to keep them there any longer.

Rhetoric is lost on you, isn't it Finman?

We all know that the "Buckfast Bee" is a synthetic multi-racial hybrid that acquires it's traits from the original race that Br Adam (and others) used to develop it. It is not a race so, I wonder, what are these "original Buckfast genes"?

There are a lot of very strange things said by groups that are supposed to be experts.