Rob Bowman wrote

> UK, EU, and many other countries receive queen and package bees from
Australia.

Let me set the record straight.  At the present time, the UK has a temporary
ban on the importation of live bees from Australia.  We did export queen
bees and packages prior to the small hive beetle find.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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