I live and beekeep in Florida.  I try and make a living keeping bees.
We keep from 400 to  1000 hives.
  We winter in north FLA, and go to the orange groves in the middle of
the state south of Orlando.  We then leave there and come back to north
Fla. and make a crop of galberry and` palmeto.  then we go south again
to Fort Myers and make a fall crop.
   I'M telling you all of this to let you know that my bees have been
exposed to 100 of thousands of other hives from all over the U.S.  To
those of y'all that are outside of the U.S. Fla is one of the favorite
places for beekeepers to winter at.
   We have not seen any beetles in any hives.  We may have some but if
we do we have seen no damage from them.

BUD