On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:49:02 -0700, Jerry Bromenshenk
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>So far, we've had the U.K. and E.U. viewpoints, a report that S. African
>does not allow the importation of live bees from the U.S., and one
>documented case of queens going to France.
>
>I know that we sell a lot of bee equipment to the middle east, but does
>anyone send bees there?  Still waiting to here from someone in South
>America.

Submitted as a supplemental note of interest, a queen breeder in Chile
informed me back in Jan. while we were discussing the Small Hive Beetle in
Australia that France had cut off all queen imports from Chile. I do not
know if there since has been any change.

Chuck Norton
Reidsvile, NC
(Where the sun is out and it is raining chunks of ice from the trees, and
still waiting for the maple bloom.)

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