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Category: Importing Bees – Good or Bad?

In the UK we import a lot of bees, mostly as queens, but is importing bees good or bad? For as long as humans have kept bees they have taken them on their travels. There must be good reasons for the importation of bees because otherwise, why do it? The risks are that when we move bees we move their pathogens and pests.

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31 Mar 22 Walrus

Hysteria Is Now Orthodoxy

Walrus Honey is delicious! An era of populism, conspiracy theories, idiotic social media clickbait and cavernous divides between rich and poor, conservative and liberal values is upon us. Perhaps the last time things were this bad was in the 1930s,…
Importing Bees - Good or Bad?, Keeping Your Bees Alive, Lessons and Opinions
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9 Oct 18 Walrus

Black Bees and Brexit

There are some topics guaranteed to cause blazing arguments even between friends and family, such as Brexit, or in the case of British beekeepers; the Black Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera). I love all bees and think it would be a…
Importing Bees - Good or Bad?
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