I raise my own queens and they are AMM
I raise my own queens and they are AMM(ish)
I raise my own queens and the are carniolan
I raise my own queens and they are caniolan(ish)
I raise my own queens and they are buckfast
I raise my own queens and they are Buckfast(ish)
I raise my own queens and they are Italian
I raise my own queens and they are italian(ish)
I raise my own queens and they are hybrid/allsorts
I raise my own queens as part of a breeding group
Einstein has the answer to this … "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.". This is something he did say, in contrast to "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live", which he didn't say.
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But even then, they're still footing a hefty financial outlay even with the government top ups.
... and also a greater chance that you will still be in beekeeping to keep making them.
Caveat: in Scotland there is training associated with the latest subsidy and other measures to improve standards. Since the (re-)discovery of EFB in 2009 there have been improvements in beekeeping standards, and I guess that the hope of the SG was that they could extend that after rescuing some enterprises from a precarious position earlier this year. Also, I really don't know what proportion of last year's imports remained as Italian stock, and although I understand that there are likely to be a lot of Italian imports coming into the UK in 2014 (as well as others) I don't know where they are likely to end up.
Not just Italian honeybee genetics of course, but also Italian honeybee pathogens, in quantity. There's another repeated mistake.
I can't remember how to create a poll
Is anyone interested in running this one again to see if anything has changed ?
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