match
House Bee
- Joined
- May 20, 2009
- Messages
- 124
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- SE Scotland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6-8
We've had a nuc stolen from our apiary just outside Edinburgh - a single Thornes style cedar nuc with metalled roof with a small colony of bees in it, and a nuc feeder (yellow plastic). Most bits should have the initials FG on them.
Very annoying and disheartening, since we lost all but one hive over winter (from 7 going into winter) and we were planning on increasingly our stock to help supply folk on the local beginner's course with bees next year.
The fact they only took one nuc implies that its a beginner/hobbyist who's just looking for one, as from what I've read here professional thieves take everything. the worst thing is, if they'd just come to us and asked really nicely they'd probably have got a cheap nuc from us next spring!
Its been reported to the police and we're asking some of the nearby buildings if they got anything on CCTV, but I'm not holding out much hope. Time to electrify the apiary and bolt everything down...
Very annoying and disheartening, since we lost all but one hive over winter (from 7 going into winter) and we were planning on increasingly our stock to help supply folk on the local beginner's course with bees next year.
The fact they only took one nuc implies that its a beginner/hobbyist who's just looking for one, as from what I've read here professional thieves take everything. the worst thing is, if they'd just come to us and asked really nicely they'd probably have got a cheap nuc from us next spring!
Its been reported to the police and we're asking some of the nearby buildings if they got anything on CCTV, but I'm not holding out much hope. Time to electrify the apiary and bolt everything down...
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