Hygiene and National Bee Unit Inspections

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Sorry it doesn't fit what you think.

Not what I think, but what I know - maybe they just gave you the answer they thought you wanted to hear?

 

[No Neo Nics]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

Are you on beebase? If you are, they wouldn't inspect without first trying to make contact

 

[Murox]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

Are you on beebase? If you are, they wouldn't inspect without first trying to make contact

Alarm Bells sounding.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

That doesn't sound like a bee inspector to me. Very strange!
Did the people who told you that it was a bee inspector not know if it was male or female?

 

[Swarm]

Alarm Bells sounding.

 

[user 819]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

Maybe some toe rag of a beek was after a cheap queen or sizing up the quality of the colony ?
A little bit worrying !!!!

If it had been an SBI a record or a result would be added to your apiary record account on line to say when they last visited.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Hmmmm
Have you checked they are queenright since?

 

[plain_hunt]

Have a look on your Beebase records, if it was a bee inspector it would have been recorded but that would also tell the inspector whose hives they were and they would have been in touch. Do you know your local inspectors? Ask them.
They can inspect any hives if they can’t trace whose they are, but I would have thought someone on the allotments would have been able to tell them who you are. I’d be a bit more suspicious myself and think someone was looking for something to acquire. Is there cctv there? Can you put something up?

 

[Pembroke]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

All the regional inspectors are listed on Beebase. Beebase - Beekeeping information resource for Beekeepers if you can remember the exact date and there's nothing on your record / you don't have one then give him or her a call.

 

[ldwgs]

I was surprised to have my bees inspected and I never knew about it until a few weeks later when a guy at the allotment told me the inspector had been. I wasn't asked, I wasn't told, and there was no evidence he / she had been. Very odd.

could be inspectors had found EFB in your area, I know of a time 3 years back where they found EFB in an apiary and on the way to the next nearby apiary had a look round and found a couple of unregistered hives and went and checked them too, but did contact the owner