Slovenia and Malta, both in the EU have banned bee imports and so should we in the UK. This afternoon at the National Honey Show I asked the man from the Ministry -fera - why we hadn't and was told that small hive beetles haven't a high enough profile with the politicians.  The BBKA ought to do something about it, maybe with an online petition, however with only about 20,000 members that's unlikely to be enough. 

Chris


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From: Peter Edwards <[log in to unmask]> 
Date:31/10/2015  16:11  (GMT+00:00) 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Small Hive Beetle in ITALY 

>I always suspected how Italy could ever get rid of Aethina tumida when neither Australia, nor Hawaii could do it. 

Me too!  Yet the UK will continue to import from Italy and some of those imports may even get checked.  The case for leaving the EU gets stronger by the day!

Best wishes

Peter 
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W

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