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Look like Italian bees to me ... very well mannered but personally... not sure about how warm climate bees would fare in your locations ?
Morning Philip, I'm not interested in buying there stock.. I rear my queen's and colonys as natural as possible no pollen subs and I try and use honey stores where possible.. So there way of rearing is completely at the other end of the spectrum.Look like Italian bees to me ... very well mannered but personally... not sure about how warm climate bees would fare in your locations ?
Supplier is in Romania...
That's what I thought ... wondered if you were thinking of changing your mongrel in favour of these Romanian pussy cats... I don't think they would be quite as amenable on the frosty slopes of the Clee ! If they really are as gentle and well behaved as in the video ?... my view - if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is !!!Morning Philip, I'm not interested in buying there stock.. I rear my queen's and colonys as natural as possible no pollen subs and I try and use honey stores where possible.. So there way of rearing is completely at the other end of the spectrum.
They wouldn't survive up here at all.
We brought in some of these warm climate bees from BS Honeybees 2 years ago... seemed to be from the Northern Greece area... 10 off £350... thought I would try boosting my surrogate early brood for queen rearing of our Native Cornish black bees that do not start brooding up until a little later in the year.Getting to a Facebook page. Not sure where I should be looking for this video?
We brought in some of these warm climate bees from BS Honeybees 2 years ago...
Breed local selected stock and encourage others not to do so
That's what I thought ... wondered if you were thinking of changing your mongrel in favour of these Romanian pussy cats... I don't think they would be quite as amenable on the frosty slopes of the Clee ! If they really are as gentle and well behaved as in the video ?... my view - if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is !!!
Thank youWas you not telling the rest of us not to import prior to two years ago? I can't remember.
You might want to edit that goal!.
I've just been on fb trying to look for the said breeder and the page has disappeared it was on the British beekeepers site.
Interesting??
May bee something "blowin in the wind" about a moratorium on importing bees in the new year?
That's old news. Importation of packages and colonies banned next year.May bee something "blowin in the wind" about a moratorium on importing bees in the new year?
Going to be sadly disappointed thenvery much doubt it. One importer plans to bring in queens / packages only, no frames.
I'm all for far stricter bio security when we have a new border with the eu but believe it will be business as usual with the vast majority of things including bees as there's too much at stake confusing supply lines for things like fresh food, I'd be happy to be proved wrong where bees are concerned but as others have pointed out this will only lead to more black/grey market imports as queens are easily posted.Going to be sadly disappointed then
Press release went out over a month ago - BFA passed it on to all memebersI'm all for far stricter bio security when we have a new border with the eu but believe it will be business as usual with the vast majority of things including bees
Press release went out over a month ago - BFA passed it on to all memebers
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