Importation of bees

[Erichalfbee]

So how did we get from queen importation to Elvis and avocado

Magic

 

[ericbeaumont]

Elvis sang about honey. Maybe beekeeping would have saved him?

 

[Somerford]

Smashed not Mashed. Get with the times.
I love avocado on toast with a lovely poached egg on top and slices of fried chorizo and/or black pudding.

What this has to do with imports of bees I have no idea

but I loved Smash as a kid and the advert with the metal robots...

 

[Fiona in South View]

So how did we get from queen importation to Elvis and avocado

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

just like grass, tastes like grass too.

I'll take your word for it.

 

[Apple]

So Bee Equipment owner is trying to import Italian colonies not just queens.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...baby-bees/ar-BB1djcgx?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=BHEA000

NEWS UPDATE NEWS UPDATE​

He may well have got his fingers burned .... along with the thousands of baby bees.......

 

[Ian123]

Isn’t that the old article it says 2/2/21 think it’s moved on from there.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Isn’t that the old article it says 2/2/21 think it’s moved on from there.

Has it though?

 

[Ian123]

Has it though?

I guess we’ll all only find out when/if the delivery arrives!

 

[madasafish]

Just read Thornes new catalogue
£80 per queen.
£300 per standard nuc...

 

[Boston Bees]

Just read Thornes new catalogue
£80 per queen.
£300 per standard nuc...

And you don't even get a poly nuc with that .....

 

[Ian123]

Just read Thornes new catalogue
£80 per queen.
£300 per standard nuc...

Same price as last year

 

[drex]

Just read Thornes new catalogue
£80 per queen.
£300 per standard nuc...

Cor Blimey. Think I will continue to make my own, if the bees agree to help

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Cor Blimey. Think I will continue to make my own, if the bees agree to help

You have to realise, that in the main, the people who shop at Thornes are not happy unless they're paying top dollar for everything.
We always see them at the Teifiside bee and equipment auctions, wandering around all the sad and decrepid unwanted kit for sale, Thornes catalogue clutched in hand - they compare the item to the same top quality new item on the catalogue then think they have got a bargain if they manage to outbid everyone to buy a knackered old roof only fit for smoker fuel for a fiver less than the catalogue price.

 

[Ian123]

I shop at thornes I picked up a van full of brood boxes yesterday

 

[Apple]

I shop at thornes I picked up a van full of brood boxes yesterday

Well... you do live in the Home Counties... would have thought that Kent was closer.... sorry forgot Harrods do a delivery service on just about every thin one could wish for........

 

[Ian123]

Well... you do live in the Home Counties... would have thought that Kent was closer.... sorry forgot Harrods do a delivery service on just about every thin one could wish for........

Ok don’t tell anyone but the boxes are seconds. On the other hand the harrods delivery drivers a furlowed BA pilot and a vast improvement on the last bloke who thought my driveway was to long.

 

[Apple]

Well... you do live in the Home Counties... would have thought that Kent was closer.... sorry forgot Harrods do a delivery service on just about every thin one could wish for........

And just for Christmas you could start keeping these... importin via NI should be fun!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

the harrods delivery drivers a furlowed BA pilot and a vast improvement on the last bloke who thought my driveway was to long.

Maybe he was hinting you put lights at the end of it?

 

[Apple]

Maybe he was hinting you put lights at the end of it?

WHAT... and fork out £1000 for Hotel isolation due to Covid!