Clandestine beehives outlaw Nestduftwärmebindung in Virginia

[doodlemaier]

Because everything I want to do is illegal.

Beekeepers shall:

1. Provide movable frames with combs or foundation in all hives used by them to contain bees, except for short periods, not to exceed the first spring honey flow, and to cause the bees in such hives to construct brood combs in such frames so that any of the frames may be removed from the hive without injuring other combs in such hive; and

2. Securely and tightly close the entrance of any hive in apiaries not free from disease and make the hive tight so that robber bees cannot enter, leave, or obtain honey from the hives as long as the hives remain in a location accessible by honeybees.

(Code 1950, § 3-497; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-602; 1972, c. 499, § 3.1-610.10; 2008, c. 860.)

Virginia "Ass"embly shall:

blow me!

Comments

Virginia codifies stupidity

[doodlemaier]

The management of (The natural comb hive with moveable layers) is so simple that with it, smallholders and farmers – people in the best position to keep bees – can carry on a natural, simple and really successful beekeeping, without any specialist knowledge and without significant expenditure of labour or cost. Any beginner who can assemble a few boards from a plan into this easily self-built hive that is unprotected by patents – assuming he does not prefer to buy it – and who obtains possession of a good swarm, can with the least amount of knowledge keep bees and thereby help improve the food supply situation.

~Translated by David Heaf from Bienenzucht. Naturgerecht einfach und erfolgsicher by Johann Thür, Imker
(Wien, Gerasdorf, Kapellerfeld, 2nd ed., 1946)

from www.users.callnetuk.com/~heaf/thur.pdf