Gscot - there's no reason if you're interested you can't produce your own queens. Any beekeeper can do that with a bit of effort on whatever scale they want to. And with a bit of help it's possible to source native stock if you're proactive about it.

What doesn't help the likes of Drone Ranger or Gavin in their parts of Scotland is large scale imports of non-native stock to flood the area with drones. Which is exactly what commercial beekeepers do as a matter of course and will do on an even grander scale with this latest scheme.