AFB again

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I do agree I wouldn't want foreign bees brought in but thats the law, I'm abiding by it, so.

Fine, and I'll leave it there, and accept that Matthew 7:12 (etc) is part of a lost distant and foreign land, the past.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Profound!!

 

[mazzamazda]

Fine, and I'll leave it there, and accept that Matthew 7:12 (etc) is part of a lost distant and foreign land, the past.

The difference is I plan to requeen and within a month we will be all the same! Oh except frames and hive sizes, do you have a problem with that too?

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

requeen

There's a great little place in Calabria.

 

[MuswellMetro]

Sorry you know NOTHING about it!

I do agree I wouldn't want foreign bees brought in but thats the law, I'm abiding by it, so. Afb endemic country has got nothing to do with it, my bees are healthy until they get infected by someone elses bees, it is only in one area.

"The bureaucrats" havent given me the certificate is because they dont know what to do, to quote the HOLY EU official, he said to my wife "We have never been asked for a certificate, most people just take them"! So please get your facts right!

you'd better get your hives in before Brexit's sec 50 is issued as if we revert to pre EU days then european imports couldl be treated as though imports from a third countries are now , in any event i doubt the bureaucracy wil be less and perhaps if Aethina tumidia gets a hold on mainland europe then it will become impossible

 

[mazzamazda]

you'd better get your hives in before Brexit's sec 50 is issued as if we revert to pre EU days then european imports couldl be treated as though imports from a third countries are now , in any event i doubt the bureaucracy wil be less and perhaps if Aethina tumidia gets a hold on mainland europe then it will become impossible

Yes, that's my thoughts, struggle here in a labour/communist coalition or do one when you can! I can promise you bureaucracy will be less than it would have been with an "IN" vote. I used to be pro european before I came here!

 

[mazzamazda]

There's a great little place in Calabria.

Thinking more "Outer London"

 

[Hivemaker.]

Mark, hope all goes well and you can get the certificates and move back here soon.

 

[mazzamazda]

Mark, hope all goes well and you can get the certificates and move back here soon.

Many thanks for your kind wishes.

 

[mbc]

But it is rather amusing how some change their tune to be sanctimonious when at other times the excuse of preventing disease spread is fine to fuel the crusade against banning the import of 'foreign' bees.

No changing of tune, nowhere did I suggest I approve of bringing in bees from the continent, especially full colonies on comb from a unit with history of foul brood. I am sympathetic to the efforts needed to effectively deal with afb though.

 

[bontbee]

Small correction there. Under UK law if colony is strong with small EFB infection and early in the season shook swarm is permissible or OTC treatment.

Small (semi) correction there - the current info I have from our RBI is that OTCs are no longer in favour and the only time they are likely to be used is with a good colony at the end of the year - a shook swarm is timetabled for as early as poss in the new year.

 

[Briarfield]

Small (semi) correction there - the current info I have from our RBI is that OTCs are no longer in favour and the only time they are likely to be used is with a good colony at the end of the year - a shook swarm is timetabled for as early as poss in the new year.

Not sure I'd want the risk over the winter near me. But we have very low incidence of disease.

Touch wood (is there an emoji for that?) etc.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Small (semi) correction there - the current info I have from our RBI is that OTCs are no longer in favour

Haven't been for a few years now