I'm just back from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in the Gulf of
Georgia...vacation.  At the ferry at Tsawwassen on the mainland, there
was a sign saying that transporting bees off the mainland was
prohibited.  While at the annual Saanich Agricultural Fair near
Victoria, the local beekeepers had a lovely booth describing bees with
an observation hive, beeswax, and all sorts of items describing
honeybees, the industry, etc.  There I heard that mites have just
arrived on these Islands.