jd101k2000
Field Bee
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2013
- Messages
- 654
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Caerbryn, near Llandybie
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 7
This year, like more than one or two of you, I have a surplus of bees.
You know it has gone from:
'The bees seem to be taking up a lot of time'
through
'Doesn't this seem to be costing a lot of money'
to
'If I see another swarm, it's ant powder for the lot of them'
So, I have started selling them... and started having mis-givings.
I have had a number of enquiries from people who do not know what a 14 x 12 is (or an eke), who 'don't want to keep bees for the honey', through to people who don't think you need to seal a nuke to put it in a car (but if it falls over you will have a car full of bees and you haven't brought a bee suit).
I have not made any of that up.
Still, I have sold the bees... what would make you refuse to sell bees to people, really?
Looking for some rules of the road/suggestions.
You know it has gone from:
'The bees seem to be taking up a lot of time'
through
'Doesn't this seem to be costing a lot of money'
to
'If I see another swarm, it's ant powder for the lot of them'
So, I have started selling them... and started having mis-givings.
I have had a number of enquiries from people who do not know what a 14 x 12 is (or an eke), who 'don't want to keep bees for the honey', through to people who don't think you need to seal a nuke to put it in a car (but if it falls over you will have a car full of bees and you haven't brought a bee suit).
I have not made any of that up.
Still, I have sold the bees... what would make you refuse to sell bees to people, really?
Looking for some rules of the road/suggestions.