Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:20 Mar 2020, 12:58
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Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:20 Mar 2020, 13:11
Fortunately;ty for us we have been designated as key workers (food producers and sellers)...So every beekeeper is a key worker. I reckon if I keep a bee suit and a crate of honey in the car I should be pretty free to inspect/go fishing....
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:20 Mar 2020, 13:29
That's an interesting angle, but I really like it!
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:20 Mar 2020, 16:12
"every beekeeper is a key worker"
Aren't we always!
Aren't we always!
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:23 Mar 2020, 09:06
Beek's don't need to use the 'Key worker' monika as we have live stock to tend to prevent disease and starvation as the minimum requirement.
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:23 Mar 2020, 10:32
I will also be contacting my Farmers where I keep bees and saying I'll be checking my bees but I do not want to talk to them in person.
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:23 Mar 2020, 20:47
Hopefully the BBKA will shortly issue a statement informing their members if travel to an out apiary is considered legal under Boris's new enforcements.
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:23 Mar 2020, 20:54
I can't even figure out if I can still work.
Re: Coronavirus - essential travel only - affect your beekeeping
PostPosted:24 Mar 2020, 08:26
I have a single hive stuck in an out apiary and, looking ahead, thinking that things will get tighter and tighter - so exceptional measures are called for.
They are on 14x12 with an under-super (nadired for the terminologically picky). Normally I would remove that super and put it over the QE. However, after an apiary planning meeting (no wine served this time
) I am just going to leave it as is and now the oilseed rape is flowering, I'll pop a couple of supers on and come back in 3 weeks time.
I am going to end up with honey I cannot sell so I might as well give them lots of room to play with even if the risk is too much room.
They are on 14x12 with an under-super (nadired for the terminologically picky). Normally I would remove that super and put it over the QE. However, after an apiary planning meeting (no wine served this time
) I am just going to leave it as is and now the oilseed rape is flowering, I'll pop a couple of supers on and come back in 3 weeks time.I am going to end up with honey I cannot sell so I might as well give them lots of room to play with even if the risk is too much room.