BEES ARE BANNED

So for the people who are already keeping bees what do they do?just evict them! and lose all the time and money spent on helping pollunation toss their beehives on the allotment bonfire
A bee can sting anyone at anytime,i got stung in my bedroom yrs ago..im fuming at that article armandii x

 

They must be thinking of painting the bees so they can colour coordinate their origins to return them to their owners!

 

This is stupid! You can get sung by a bee ANYWHERE! Health & safety drives me crackers!
As Joolz68 said what are the people suppose to do with their bees who already live on the allotment? I thought bees are 'homing' creatures so you couldn't just get rid could you?

 

Well done armandii Pillocks!!!!
Its all about compensation claims these days so i understand to some point but if they got their hands in their pockets(meaning tax payers contributions) and made gravestones safe surely it would work out cheaper than claims and leave the world a much beautiful place

 

You are highly unlikely to ever get stung by a bee. If you just ignore any bee near you or on you it will not sting - they only respond to aggression. And even then only 50% of bees have a sting as the drones (males) are stingless. And after all that only 2% of us are allergic to bee stings.
So this decision is total idiocy. The effort wasted on this would be better spent telling people to just ignore bees, not to drink out of tin cans and to tip your shoes out in the summer before putting your feet in.

 

They banned bees in New York as part of zero tolerance, so bee keepers became inventive in how they kept hives, hiding them in ventilation spaces and desguised on rooftops, I reckon this is what will happen here, folk will just work around the ban, if it's implemented.
As said previously it's ridiculous to ban bees from allotments, we need to treasure every Bee we have, wherever they are located.
Hopefully common sense will prevail and the councils will get around it by adding something in the lease contract to state that there may be Bees kept on the allotments and anyone who may be sensitive or allergic to stings must acknowledge the risk and may need to take the necessary precautionary measures.
What next banning pollen loading plants as they may cause hay fever lol!

 

It's probably been decided by people who have never set foot on an allotment and who know nothing about bees. Also I would have thought that people who are allergic to bee stings would know this and rather than risk going into anaphylactic shock as the result of a bee sting would perhaps avoid hobbies like allotmenteering and gardening?

 

I go into acute shock as a result of bee stings but it has no bearing on my life whatsoever. I do the basics that I mentioned earlier but that's it. I haven't seen my EpiPen in about four years or so

 

Councillor, councillor I've been stung by a bee and it came from *that* allotment.
Can you describe the bee so we can positively identify where it came from?
Yes, it was black with yellow stripes (or perhaps, yellow with black stripes)?

Fetch the Bee Police, immediatlely! ​

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I think we should ban everything that could hurt people, o that means life as we know it

 

Health and Safety are working on it, be patient!

 

I dont see any problem with people keeping bees as long as they are actively managing their hives

on the other hand i do have a problem with if they have hives and are not looking after them

A neighbour of my parents had abandoned hives in the garden that he didn't look after and at some point bees must have used it but there was a problem. Not sure if the queen had died or something happened but no one could walk into the second half of my parents garden without getting stung

If you walked into the flight path of the bees they would chase you until you were stung. and they would chase you a very long way

Here is a pic of my parents garden. I had got to the arch way between the fir trees which is about half way down when suddenly this bee flew at me. I managed to run all the way to the steps where half way up i was stung on the back of the head.



That summer so many people got stung, my parents friends, family members and the poor gardener was harassed. it was a complete nightmare. To be safe you couldn't go further than the arched on the right of the pic where there is white furniture

So i have no problems with people who are looking after their hives and are responsible but not people who get into it and then cant be bothered and just leave it.