Lone, I'm not trying to trivialise it.
Nana Glen is 30 km from an international marina at Coffs Harbour. I have been called to get swarms in the Jetty area a few times only to find them gone or picked up by someone else. Who knows what they were or what was on them. I am just as exposed as you are.
This incursion has been seized upon by the woo merchants & scare mongers that hang around at the fringes of our industry and they are giving the impression that it is the end of the world so that they can push there agendas and crowd fund their lazy, unproductive lifestyles.
My Facebook feed is full of references to Varroa. Its another thing I have to explain to people like "no my honey is not watered down", "no I don't feed antibiotics to my bees", "no I don't heat my honey", no my honey is not imported from China", "have you heard about that hive where the honey runs out of a tap?'
The rest of the world is dealing with Varroa. The good beekeepers will survive & the not so good ones won't. Bees will outlast people.
I really hope that this outbreak can be contained. The pessimist in me feels that it is already out of the box & moving at 110km per hour on the back of trucks right now.
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