Another one about to jump species.

[Pete L]

Not quite as free as that. You can now only import from Western Australia. A long way from any of these incidents.

Also...that state only has Italian ligustica type stock, and is not really suited to most UK regions, so the risk of these bees coming to Scotland other than via a secondary vendor making nucs up with them is negligible.

Lets hope so, although the treatment used now would be just as effective on them I expect.

Even if they arrived in Plymouth they would soon spread north to Scotland within a relatively short time.