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You wrote:
> I met our Inspector, Beulah Cullen, on Wednesday at a meeting of my
> local beekeeping association.
As an indicator of the scale of things, Beulah covers us too, although I
hope our local BDO (Mark White) is different as he comes up from
Gillingam in Dorset (one hell of a slog -- it takes him about 2 hours
just to get here).
I think there is a more proactive attitude. There needs to be when you
consider how widely spread the inspectors are.
I personally think that the new initiative shows promise because it aims
to better educate beekeepers about their responsibilities to themselves.
Of course some of us have always taken that to heart ;-). My worry is
that the 'keepeers of bees' will take no notice and will just let their
bees suffer whatever comes to them, with the consequential risk to *my*
bees. The usual apathy reigns -- In Basingstoke our publicity leaflet
even offers to take non-members through disease and varroa inspections
and/or treatments, with no strings, but with no takers (yet -- ever the
optimist).
Still, Beulah and her peers should be giving talks in the forthcoming
winters. Perhaps the message will eventually get through; if varroa
doesn't first.
Best regards,
--
Gordon Scott [log in to unmask] 100332,3310 on CompuServe
Newsletter [log in to unmask] ditto
Beekeeper, Kendo Sandan, sometime sailor.
Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 5HP, UK
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