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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DOWN UNDER BEEKEEPING => Topic started by: Ben Framed on December 18, 2021, 03:54:46 am

Title: Is Australia still Varroa Free?
Post by: Ben Framed on December 18, 2021, 03:54:46 am

I am asking you folks from Oz, Is your continent still Varroa Mite free? I will add hopefully so..

Phillip

Title: Re: Is Australia still Varroa Free?
Post by: max2 on December 18, 2021, 07:10:14 am

Yes...so far.
Our governmnet allows now the import of honey.
I wonder if this is the way we will get those mites?

About 15 years ago we got SHB and nobody knows how they came in

Title: Re: Is Australia still Varroa Free?
Post by: BeeMaster2 on December 18, 2021, 09:33:09 am

They probably came in the same way the other parasites come into this country. Our honey competitors bring them here. We had too many come in too fast to bee natural.
Jim Altmiller