After being gone for a week, I found this message, and am frankly
astonished that it generated no responses. If true, this is probably the
single most important message I have ever seen posted on this newsgroup.
- John Edwards
Robert Roach wrote:
> Merced County California has detected Small Hive Beetle or SHB (Aethina
> tumida Murray)
> during a routine apiary strength inspection of 198 colonies on 2-28-01.
> CDFA Meadowview lab confirmed the sample on 3-2-01. The bees were
> originally purchased from an out-of-business Florida based
> operation. The colonies traveled from Florida to Maine to
> North Dakota and then to California in October of 2000.