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Queen Bee
That looks well suited to its purpose and cleverly designed.My "Better Beetle Trap" design is shown in the accompanying drawing, and photographs.
That looks well suited to its purpose and cleverly designed.My "Better Beetle Trap" design is shown in the accompanying drawing, and photographs.
Depending on what part of Australia your beekeeping friends live, you may invite them to make contact with me. Perhaps I should have said, "wherever your beekeeping friends live ..."I have friends who beekeep in California and in Australia and they just get on with it or give up, just as we will here
Just hope we never need it in the UK!That looks well suited to its purpose and cleverly designed.
Just hope we never need it in the UK!
Possibly new rules on bringing bees in packages and queens will prevent SHB reaching our shores via honeybee imports.
Concern need to be directed towards bring SHB in via contaminated soil?
The NBU do take the threat of SHB very seriously. They have designated my site as an Enhanced Sentinel Apiary because it's only a couple of miles from Felixstowe Docks. If any nasty furriners invade, in theory they will invade me first!
So my local bee inspector has provided some SHB traps. There's a Beetle Blaster which is filled with vegetable oil and a bit of cider vinegar then put between two brood frames, and a couple of Thorne's Schaefer traps which are basically a strip of black correx put on the floor.
Every couple of months he inspects my hives for SHB and Tropilaelaps, scrapes all the crud from the varroa trays and sends it off to the NBU lab for analysis. So far nothing worse than varroa and the occasional wax moth larva, but it's good to know that the Powers That Be are watching!
I am pleased to see your response, that "The NBU do take the threat of SHB very seriously". I would also want to encourage you as you participate in a sentinel hive program.The NBU do take the threat of SHB very seriously. They have designated my site as an Enhanced Sentinel Apiary because it's only a couple of miles from Felixstowe Docks. If any nasty furriners invade, in theory they will invade me first!
So my local bee inspector has provided some SHB traps. There's a Beetle Blaster which is filled with vegetable oil and a bit of cider vinegar then put between two brood frames, and a couple of Thorne's Schaefer traps which are basically a strip of black correx put on the floor.
Every couple of months he inspects my hives for SHB and Tropilaelaps, scrapes all the crud from the varroa trays and sends it off to the NBU lab for analysis. So far nothing worse than varroa and the occasional wax moth larva, but it's good to know that the Powers That Be are watching!
I think you should, given the direction from our erstwhile colleague above, start a national campaign for banning importation of most fruits as well? Or is you campaign aimed at one Beefarmer in particular?
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