> No comment on the irony inherent in US beekeepers buying queens
> from some of the folks sure to be among the most vocal opposition
> to any attempt to get Canada to comply with existing international
> treaties in regard to trade in things like queens.

Talk about irony, when a queen import protocol was being developed last fall
by Medhat and others, Quebec nixed the import of queens for this (past)
spring along with two other provinces (nations?).  This spring Quebec
beekeepers got hit heavily by winter loss.  Reports are that some of that
number were on their knees begging around for queens.

Seems the traditional informal imports of up to 100,000 queens annually were
truncated by border authorities -- who are lately very vigilant (in search
of terrorists) and have to show they stopped something, and queens were
suddenly in unusually short supply up here in the Great White North.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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