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<blockquote data-quote="Maggie" data-source="post: 2289" data-attributes="member: 71"><p>Hi Dennis - I have done a huge amount of surveillance, and I don't know whether I would agree with this 200 m discrepancy. You only need a high density beekeeping area, five corner intersections, forestry, creeks, rivers, irrigation ditches, high hedges, paper roads that may not be obvious to a registered beekeeper, inaccuracies with google (and yes this is not uncommon), urban living and you may not be able to see the apiary. Sometimes there are numerous registered apiaries within sight to choose from, and if each beekeeper is 100-200 m out then it's pretty easy to inspect the wrong site. Then there are the apiaries that might be in your view that are not registered, or may the hives have only been placed there and the apiary is not registered, and you inspect these instead! When you have large surveillance contracts, it is easy to strike all these scenarios in high density beekeeping areas. Not every registered beekeeper has their ID displayed in their apiary, and not every beekeeper answers their mobile when you need to query these scenarios - and time is money and organisation even out on surveillance. Then there is the scenario of beekeepers dobbing in other beekeepers, and they don't have the right facts regarding sites or what they have actually seen. I understand I am the only surveillance contractor who has ever inspected a crateful of netting for a vineyard, purely and simply because a local beekeeper was adamant it was a row beehives that he could see from the road and reported this crate as an unregistered apiary. Didn't need a smoker for that surveillance! The vineyard owner was totally amused.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggie, post: 2289, member: 71"] Hi Dennis - I have done a huge amount of surveillance, and I don't know whether I would agree with this 200 m discrepancy. You only need a high density beekeeping area, five corner intersections, forestry, creeks, rivers, irrigation ditches, high hedges, paper roads that may not be obvious to a registered beekeeper, inaccuracies with google (and yes this is not uncommon), urban living and you may not be able to see the apiary. Sometimes there are numerous registered apiaries within sight to choose from, and if each beekeeper is 100-200 m out then it's pretty easy to inspect the wrong site. Then there are the apiaries that might be in your view that are not registered, or may the hives have only been placed there and the apiary is not registered, and you inspect these instead! When you have large surveillance contracts, it is easy to strike all these scenarios in high density beekeeping areas. Not every registered beekeeper has their ID displayed in their apiary, and not every beekeeper answers their mobile when you need to query these scenarios - and time is money and organisation even out on surveillance. Then there is the scenario of beekeepers dobbing in other beekeepers, and they don't have the right facts regarding sites or what they have actually seen. I understand I am the only surveillance contractor who has ever inspected a crateful of netting for a vineyard, purely and simply because a local beekeeper was adamant it was a row beehives that he could see from the road and reported this crate as an unregistered apiary. Didn't need a smoker for that surveillance! The vineyard owner was totally amused. [/QUOTE]
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