Monitoring Feral Colonies of Honey bees in Scotland Report for Spring 2020

摘要

It will not be a surprise that this report is fairly brief. The month of April, when I have annually asked the volunteers who are monitoring sites which they know feral colonies of honey bees have recently occupied or are still currently occupying, coincided almost exactly with the start of the lock-down imposed by the government in order to try to keep the spread of the new Corona virus under control. The inevitable result is that of the 26 sites which were on my list as being currently monitored, the status of only 7 was reported back to me as the result of a visit during April or May.