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Offline max2

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AFB in NZ
« on: May 15, 2024, 06:35:12 pm »
This would break my heart:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516930/beekeeper-steven-brown-furious-over-destruction-of-2m-honey-crop

In Australia we do have access to heat treatment ( I send all my deadouts to a bloke who has an approved set-up - just in case)
We also have a Gamma facilty but it is expensive.
It appears NZ does not have such a facility.
This looks like gear in good condition.
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Offline Terri Yaki

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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2024, 06:41:24 pm »
That is sad and unfortunate.
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2024, 08:19:07 pm »
   I know about twenty years ago.. There was a Gamma facilty.. About an hour and fifty minutes from my house.. It was very competitive about the first five years.. For about the last fifteen years. This inflation has killed it.. The price of everything going up.. And bee equipment did not go off nearly as much.. Cheaper, just to buy new and start over again...  When all the costs are considered.


       BEE HAPPY  Jim134.  :smile:
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2024, 07:02:18 am »
Why is it that I they are only burning equipment. AFB is on the bees. Did they move the bees to new hives?
Jim Altmiller
« Last Edit: May 16, 2024, 08:38:16 am by BeeMaster2 »
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2024, 08:25:40 am »
No, the bees are killed with a cup of Petrol ( Gasoline)  or a Phosphane ( I think it is called ) tablet.
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2024, 09:12:20 am »
Quote from: BeeMaster2 on May 16, 2024, 07:02:18 am
Why is it that I they are only burning equipment. AFB is on the bees. Did they move the bees to new hives?
Jim Altmiller

Good questions Jim. The article did not say, (anywhere that I could find), whether the bees were destroyed or moved. . .

It did say:
"The loss of the boxes is one thing, but without the boxes for the hives we won't have a honey crop."

Which might easily lead one to think they did indeed move the bees.  Had they said >without bees or boxes< there would have been no question about it.



« Last Edit: May 16, 2024, 12:11:51 pm by Ben Framed »
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2024, 11:07:12 am »
How terrible.  A beekeeper's worst nightmare.  :cry:
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Re: AFB in NZ
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2024, 11:26:53 am »
Quote from: The15thMember on May 16, 2024, 11:07:12 am
How terrible.  A beekeeper's worst nightmare.  :cry:

So True!
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