“Too many honeybees can negatively impact wild bees in the vicinity,” says Úna FitzPatrick, a senior ecologist for the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
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April 7, 2021 1:03 pm
The withdrawal of the UK from the EU has caused untold difficulties, but Fianna Fáil Senator for Roscommon/Galway Eugene Murphy raised an “unusual situation” regarding “Brexit and bees” in the Seanad recently.
Senator Murphy said that he was contacted recently by the Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations “in relation to an English man who is trying to import 15 million bees from Italy to England”.
“He is trying to bring them through Northern Ireland because of Brexit,” the senator explained.
“The correspondence stated that if the bees go into Britain, the authorities there will burn them. Therefore, it is now being stated clearly that he will try to put the bees up for sale in Northern Ireland.