FW: Bees and 1080An interesting observation, and concerning from several viewpoints.
Chris Smuts

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Subject: FW: Bees and 1080





Leigh Marshall 
Fauna Ecologist 
Technical Support Unit 
Waikato Conservancy 
Department of Conservation 
Private Bag 3072, HAMILTON 
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From:   Murray, Neil  Golden Bay AO  
Sent:   Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:18 a.m. 
To:     L\Animal Pests 
Subject:        Bees and 1080 

Here in Golden Bay we recently had an interesting situation to do with bees visiting our loading site during a 1080 operation. For the 11am to 2pm period these bees made great efforts to collect what appeared to be the dust from the pellets but may have been the cinnamon oil. Whatever it was they were collecting they left each time with bright green pollen sacks and proved impossible to keep out of the loading hoppers.

The hives were in close proximity (150m) as the beekeeper had chosen not to move them due mainly to the fact that we had run a number of previous operations from the site with the bees there and never had any problems. The heli operators also noted that they had recently carried out operations with bees in even closer proximity with no worries.

Has anyone else ever had any problems with bees visiting? This is definitely something to watch out for. Luckily the bee keeper wasn't too upset and the bees are not in the business of making honey at that time of the year. We would certainly be insisting the bees be moved next time.

Neil Murray 
Golden Bay Area Office 
Dept of Conservation 
Ph 03 5258026 


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