Topic: stolen bees!!

[tonybloke]

just in case you missed it, here's the story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8001061.stm
 some folk will stoop really low, >:(

[thifasmom]

thats disgusting >:(, but also 500 pigs and 200 sheep certainly not one man jobs and even inside jobs :-X :-\.

do bee keepers insure their stock?

[Twoflower]

Thats really awful! :-[ It's bad enough losing them over the winter anyway. There is a beekeeper in my area wwho has just had his vandelised. Someone went in kicked four hives over and cut down a load of apple trees. i hope they got stung!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Twoflower]

thats disgusting >:(, but also 500 pigs and 200 sheep certainly not one man jobs and even inside jobs :-X :-\.

do bee keepers insure their stock?

Yes you can do

[flossy]

   Can't believe these stories of animal theft, but unhappily I do,  what a sad state of

   affairs  --  It isn't people who are hungry  [  for food  ]  they are commercial thieves

   who steal a mans livelihood,    where do they get thier knowledge and expertise from ?

   It is organised crime and the sooner the '' Powers that be ''  get onto it the better !!

    Wake up England and St GEORGE FOR EVER !       :(

    FLOSS XXX

   

[Robert_Brenchley]

I can't hear the report since for some reason I'm not getting sound off the internet at the moment. I can download files and it's OK, but Vdownloader won't work for a lot of sites unfortunately. 'a million bees' probably means 20 colonies, since at the height of summer (not now) a colony's supposed to have 50 000 bees in it. I don't know where the fugure comes from. It's a bugger, but it does happen occasionally. The worst loss will be the woodenware, since it's expensive to replace, and the drawn combs.

[Robert_Brenchley]

This is probably the same case

http://www.beefarmers.co.uk/articles/p2_articleid/18?s=02b13cd74212ec8ed1c772b9796474b4