Bee smuggler with 40 illegal colonies hit with Swiss fine

Swiss customs officers stopped a delivery van carrying 40 bee colonies. The insect cargo was refused entry into Switzerland as it had no import licence. The driver was fined several hundred Swiss francs by customs officials in Tägerwilen, near to the border with Germany, earlier this month. + Switzerland’s battle of the bees The 40-year-old driver from Poland was transporting the insects in wooden crates in the load compartment of a delivery van with Swiss number plates, customs stated in a…