National Beehive Count ..... Hmmmm.

[Hivemaker.]

how much would a vet charge to visit my hive half a mile accross a field

Same as they would any other farmer when called out to inspect their livestock.

 

[alldigging]

how much would a vet charge to visit my hive half a mile accross a field or for a £2,50 tub of apiguard

Just offer to take some bees in a suitable box. I mean they'd like a trip out in something like a cat box to sit in a busy vets surgery for half an hour?

 

[Tremyfro]

...and don't forget you will get a vets bill for each bee...though it would be a shared visit charge....

 

[iand]

Into the Lions Den has the best 4x4 trucks by far. mercedes unimog

Of the mogs we have, the one with tractor type tyres is the least likely to get into difficulties. Whatever vehicle you have it, comes back to traction. Oh & the driver shaping up of course.

 

[MuswellMetro]

Just offer to take some bees in a suitable box. I mean they'd like a trip out in something like a cat box to sit in a busy vets surgery for half an hour?

Having taken a paynes poly nuc full of bees from a swarm collected in islington on a london tube train, it would have been no big deal, expect for the comments Oh, have you got a little kitten in there i can hear her purrring,,,i should have said yes, instead of saying, no its swarm of bees ...had a nice quiet journey in a near empty tube coach

 

[Fritillary]

Very nice, MM!!

 

[alldigging]

Having taken a paynes poly nuc full of bees from a swarm collected in islington on a london tube train, it would have been no big deal, expect for the comments Oh, have you got a little kitten in there i can hear her purrring,,,i should have said yes, instead of saying, no its swarm of bees ...had a nice quiet journey in a near empty tube coach

Oo how fun!

 

[Ely]

I tend to be quite solitary in my hobbies as I don't like big groups (there is always one or two that try to lord it over you) and I'm not a fan of big brother but then again I can also see the flip side and the benefits it might bring to disease and pest control if everyone were to register. I'm unsure how they could maintain the accuracy though. Not many people are vigilante enough to constantly update the details.

 

[wessexmario]

... but then again I can also see the flip side and the benefits it might bring to disease and pest control if everyone were to register. I'm unsure how they could maintain the accuracy though. Not many people are vigilante enough to constantly update the details.

The details don't really matter that much. It's knowing the locations of the apiaries and being able to contact the owners that's most important for the bee inspectors.

If someone has 1, 10 or 100 hives and the recorded number isn't exact, that's a detail that's much less important in the initial reaction to disease outbreaks, where the aim is notification of beeks and sample monitoring of apiary locations by inspectors.

The most important updates would be to register apiary locations that aren't, and to delete locations that are no longer used.