The next stage in the fight to keep NSW Varroa mite free starts next week, with the commencement of destruction of wild European honey bees in the red eradication zone… Read More
INDUSTRY MEETING AHBIC will be holding an open industry meeting on Wednesday 31st August at 6pm AEST via Zoom. This will be a Zoom meeting hosted by AHBIC and will… Read More
AHBIC webinar On Wednesday the 31st August, AHBIC hosted an online webinar to update industry on the progress of the Varroa response in NSW. This update included guest speakers from… Read More
Last week the response reached the milestone of 50 days of eradicating Varroa Destructor. Across the response there has been over 1,350 staff from many agencies including the Department of… Read More
You may be aware that Australia carries out surveys of honey bees on Norfolk Island to determine the disease status of the honey bees there. During a recent survey a… Read More
Reporting of this incursion has been focused on mite detections and the red dots on maps. The work that has been conducted by the 30 odd field teams of beekeeper… Read More
Amendments have been made to the ‘do not move’ order that is in place for all beekeepers in NSW under the general emergency zone (blue zone). Read More
Incursion responses raise complex issues and actions that have many moving parts. The Varroa incursion response has required informed and timely sensible decision-making structures, procedures and processes, which need to… Read More
Tracing efforts have been increasing with resources being dedicated to understanding hive movements of bees, queens and packages/nucleus hives out of the Newcastle area. Read More
On Wednesday the 22nd June an initial detection of Varroa mite was found in sentinel hives at the port of Newcastle (infected premises (IP) 1, 2 and 3). A second… Read More