Bulgarian beekeepers illegally import foreign queen bees

This poses a risk of the appearance of new diseases in our country Bulgarian beekeepers massively illegally import foreign queen bees, which creates risks of the emergence of new diseases among bee families, which, at this stage, are unknown in Bulgaria. Prof. Plamen Petrov from the Agrarian University in Plovdiv and chairman of the National Beekeeping Breeding Association warned about this at a meeting with beekeepers in Veliko Tarnovo. The illegal import of queen bees in our country creates many risks, and they are also more expensive than the Bulgarian ones. Imports are mainly from Poland, Austria, Germany, Turkey, which also poses a risk for new bee diseases, said Prof. Petrov on BNR: "Regardless of the fact that the Law on Beekeeping prohibits the importation of foreign breeds of bees, beekeepers illegally import such queen bees, which has an extremely negative impact on local populations and local bees". 27 pesticides were found in bee corpses in our country, ...