Hive with 40,000 bees inside stolen on Anglesey

[Guest396]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-40885461?SThisFB

 

[Erichalfbee]

Poor chap.
Anglesey bees are stolen with alarming regularity it seems

 

[maddydog]

In a ditch??

 

[For want of a better word]

In a ditch??

In best part of half a century of beekeeping I have never had a swarm attack me!!
Bloody BA Hons journalists strike again.

OK Beef. I am being pedantic!

Yeghes da

 

[MartinL]

Welsh Police said:

"they were wearing a full bee suit or they risked being stung"?


I doubt anyone bothers suiting up to close a hive in the dark but it looks like the local plod are out looking for fully-suited speeding drivers?
It's no surprise that no arrests have been made?

"the thief must have had some knowledge of bees or beekeeping otherwise they wouldn't have done it".

Another stunning deduction Holmes!
(if not they would be learning now).

Not really any surprise is it, with an IQ like that surprised he was able to come up with a crime number!

Last time I called the police, the answer was,
"out Rural Crime officer is on holiday, can you call back in a fortnight"!

 

[Beefriendly]

OK Beef. I am being pedantic!

Yes I know, it's defined (Cambridge English Dictionary)
as a person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important.

 

[For want of a better word]

Yes I know, it's defined (Cambridge English Dictionary)
as a person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important.

Thank God I am an Oxford man!!

Yeghes da

 

[Quis Custodiet]

Thank God I am an Oxford man!!

Yeghes da

Oxbridge....simply splendid old boy.

 

[taurus]

"It's not the sort of thing you have in your back garden."

 

[JWF]

"It's not the sort of thing you have in your back garden."

That's what I thought too

 

[charlievictorbravo]

They say that journalism is the first attempt at writing history and that's why it's important that reports are accurate. Imagine in 500 years time, some student is writing his thesis on the history of beekeeping in Wales and finds that story. "They kept bees in ditches, hidden away from everybody and no bees were kept in gardens"

We should all be pedantic when newspapers get facts wrong - "fake news". It makes me wonder when I see sloppy reporting about something I have some knowledge of, just what is wrong with all the reports I read where I don't have prior knowledge - are all reporters that casual with facts? Or is it a case of "don't confuse me with facts, I've got a story to write"

Rant over

CVB

 

[For want of a better word]

They say that journalism is the first attempt at writing history and that's why it's important that reports are accurate. Imagine in 500 years time, some student is writing his thesis on the history of beekeeping in Wales and finds that story. "They kept bees in ditches, hidden away from everybody and no bees were kept in gardens"

We should all be pedantic when newspapers get facts wrong - "fake news". It makes me wonder when I see sloppy reporting about something I have some knowledge of, just what is wrong with all the reports I read where I don't have prior knowledge - are all reporters that casual with facts? Or is it a case of "don't confuse me with facts, I've got a story to write"

Rant over

CVB

Even more annoying is when you are 100% correct about something and some meddling twit tries to grass you up by twisting the facts themselves.......

Reminds me of

SEND THREE AND FOURPENCE WE ARE GOING TO A DANCE.......

Then you get 50 dozen threatening emails to you your friends of family doubting your birthright... because they ( the nay saying meddling twits acquaintance) has faked up information.
And it all ends up in Court... happens to Private Eye on an annual basis!!... however good their journalists.

I will remain a pedant... it is the way I was made!!

Yeghes da

 

[Herbalist]

Someone tried to steal one of my brothers hives (in Lancashire). He/they were NOT beekeepers. The hive was disarranged in the morning and there were dead bees on the lawn. It was a particularly aggressive hive. (It has now been re-queened and is now normal). We did not report it to the police. The thought of the plod running round looking for someone with a very lumpy face was more than we could bear.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

They say that journalism is the first attempt at writing history and that's why it's important that reports are accurate. Imagine in 500 years time, some student is writing his thesis on the history of beekeeping in Wales and finds that story. "They kept bees in ditches, hidden away from everybody and no bees were kept in gardens"

We should all be pedantic when newspapers get facts wrong - "fake news". It makes me wonder when I see sloppy reporting about something I have some knowledge of, just what is wrong with all the reports I read where I don't have prior knowledge - are all reporters that casual with facts? Or is it a case of "don't confuse me with facts, I've got a story to write"

Rant over

CVB

Par for the course for Anglesey journalism. Since before the Romans we've been using that island to contain our druids and madmen.
Not the first (and doubt it will be the last) time that rag has published some absolute piffle about beekeeping - and all the locals get really excited about it, after an article about midnight queen rustling, one person wrote in to the WBKA magazine blaming his woes on a colony that had gone Q- on some scallywag who had put bait hives in the woods near his apiary to lure his queens away!!!!

 

[Beefriendly]

on some scallywag who had put bait hives in the woods near his apiary to lure his queens away!!!!

Not sure of the local vernacular, but is that a term for ewes?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Not sure of the local vernacular, but is that a term for ewes?

Liverpuddlian term for utter and absolute scoundrel. The modern term for the denizens of the isle of the mad happens to be 'scousers who can swim'

 

[Beefriendly]

I was referring to the queens

 

[Erichalfbee]

I was referring to the queens

Would a sheep fit in a bait hive?

 

[Beefriendly]

Would a sheep fit in a bait hive?

Knowing (allegedly) the ingenuity some will go to snare a good ewe....probably!

 

[Millet]

Knowing (allegedly) the ingenuity some will go to snare a good ewe....probably!

Taste nice but unsure of Meds given..