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: To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : Roz November 26, 2004, 12:24:34 AM lol I was finding out about sending a parcel to the UK and noted the following regulations!
"Live queen bees must be accompanied by an import license issued by a UK Government Agricultural Department and a health certificate issued by the appropriate Government Department of the country of origin stating that the bees are free of disease. " LOL - can you imagine opening up your parcel to find a flipping great angry bee in there :-\ : Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : ferdinand_the_yak November 26, 2004, 04:25:42 AM *makes note to self*
Okay, Santa, your pressie has to change, sorry about that ;) I thought it would be a nice way of getting cheap honey for you ;) HOw the heck do you pack a bee??? ??? : Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : savage727 November 26, 2004, 05:28:22 AM I think you can ship them in a container that has been cooled to keep their activity very low.
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : sonarghost November 26, 2004, 05:42:43 AM I'm glad I'm getting dead bees from my secret santa!! ;D
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : blackcat20 November 26, 2004, 08:40:30 AM At uni we always get parcels containing live flies...it can be done. However, we do it for research purposes, not for xmas pressies ;D
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : MakTheYak November 26, 2004, 05:14:56 PM I think you just have to use a lot of bubble wrap (same with anything isn't it folks!)
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : savage727 November 26, 2004, 05:24:12 PM I nominate MaktheYak as our head BeeKeeper and invite Forum Members from all over the world to send him samples of your countries bees! :) Should make a fine collection but I don't think your local Postman will be very happy especially if one or more of the packages become undone!! ;)
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : ferdinand_the_yak November 26, 2004, 05:54:18 PM What about a nice European wasp Mak? ;)
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : sonarghost November 27, 2004, 06:15:45 AM Would he have to change the name from "The Yak Shack" to "The Bee Shack"??? :P
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : savage727 November 27, 2004, 05:42:01 PM Hey Sonarghost:
The Bee Shack has a nice ring to it! :) Do you remember the song by the B-52's - "The Love Shack"? That tune is running through my mind with the words Bee Shack & YakShack instead!! :) : Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : Roz November 28, 2004, 11:26:15 PM I won't pretend that on long journeys when the radio has had no signal we haven't sung love shack... and once changed it to Yak Shack!
But never mind :-\ : Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : sonarghost November 29, 2004, 02:24:53 AM Do I know the song Savage?? I've actually have done my fair share of this song with me and my friends at kareoke! (I had a few too many drinks I must admit) :P
: Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : MakTheYak November 29, 2004, 02:48:40 AM Great song! I love it!
As for sending me bees... I rather you just skipped the middle man and sent me honey ;) : Re:To secret santa's - no live queen bees please : savage727 November 30, 2004, 04:09:03 AM Cool Sonarghost!! Isn't it amazing the things we will do when we have had a few?!! :)
Ok Roz I will not go down that path and as for you Mark - I think you are going to have to ask your better half about that! ;) |