AUS….Given up on Varroa Removal

[Ian123]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...adicate-deadly-honey-bee-parasite-2023-09-20/

 

[Sutty]

That's a real shame for them

 

[fian]

This has happened by attempting to isolate apiaries (wild or managed) without a compensation system.
That is, 14,000 hives have been destroyed to stop the spread of varroa, but have the beekeepers who supported them been compensated? Based on the flight to other places to escape the burning, it seems not, this in turn is what has increased the spread of varroa.
Was hives allowed to enter Australia and if so, were they inspected or sanitized before entering the country?

 

[fian]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03...ng-dogs-sniff-bees-with-varroa-mite/102125454

 

[Erichalfbee]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...adicate-deadly-honey-bee-parasite-2023-09-20/

It’s awful for them but unexpected. All that destruction! They will learn to live with it I guess but they now have the double whammy of Beetle too

 

[Ian123]

This has happened by attempting to isolate apiaries (wild or managed) without a compensation system.
That is, 14,000 hives have been destroyed to stop the spread of varroa, but have the beekeepers who supported them been compensated? Based on the flight to other places to escape the burning, it seems not, this in turn is what has increased the spread of varroa.
Was hives allowed to enter Australia and if so, were they inspected or sanitized before entering the country?

Hives/colonies are not imported into Aus…

 

[Erichalfbee]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03...ng-dogs-sniff-bees-with-varroa-mite/102125454

A snip from the article
“ He welcomed the resumption of detector dog training for the queen bee odour.”
So they were never trained in the first place. Not surprising they didn’t find any.

 

[fian]

Hives/colonies are not imported into Aus…

If they are not imported, how does varroa arrive? On the back of a airplane?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Queens are.

 

[fian]

A snip from the article
“ He welcomed the resumption of detector dog training for the queen bee odour.”
So they were never trained in the first place. Not surprising they didn’t find any.

"We understand the odour was removed in 2015, however there is no specific information relating to the decision made at that time."

 

[Ian123]

Queens are.

Yes queens are but I believe kept quarantined?….

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well something escaped quarantine. Unless it was malicious. Heaven forbid.

 

[Ian123]

"We understand the odour was removed in 2015, however there is no specific information relating to the decision made at that time."

Do you have any idea what you are talking about….. Aus border controls and it’s location are far tighter than the vast majority of other countries

 

[Ian123]

Well something escaped quarantine. Unless it was malicious. Heaven forbid.

I doubt it if that was the case they would have been on it right away. Probably imported on a cargo ship in the form of a swarm or colony as many other islands have found.
They’ve also had incursions in the North before and dealt with them.

 

[Ian123]

If they are not imported, how does varroa arrive? On the back of an airplane?

Do I detect humour?
No on ships/cargo…..it’s common

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ah yes. I remember reading that somewhere

 

[pargyle]

"Varroa does not target native Australian honey bees." ... However, they fail to say that the native Australian Honey bee is not a true honey bee ... it's a stingless bees that produces tiny amounts of honey in the same way that stingless bees in parts of Asia do.

 

[Ian123]

"Varroa does not target native Australian honey bees." ... However, they fail to say that the native Australian Honey bee is not a true honey bee ... it's a stingless bees that produces tiny amounts of honey in the same way that stingless bees in parts of Asia do.

Mind you they they now find DWV in bumbles and they think that’s connected.

 

[fian]

¿Detecto humor?
No en barcos/carga…..es común

 

[roche]

Do you have any idea what you are talking about….. Aus border controls and it’s location are far tighter than the vast majority of other countries

Varroa arrived in NZ - which has similar if not tighter controls in place. Rumour in the bazaars is that it was on smuggled queens. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly ignorant of the potential damage.