I am pulling this from Karen Thurlow-Kimball's post in Bee-L under the
topic PF100s Two Years Later where she is referencing mite
monitoring thresholds but there is a reference to SHB in Ontario and in NYS

see:
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/food/inspection/bees/11-treatment-recomms.htm#Small
Hive Beetle

>Table 3 >Important Disease Information:[image: 2011]

   - >There is a new pest in the Ontario, the small hive beetle (SHB),
   Aethina tumida. The adult beetle is about 3/16" long, 1/8" wide and dark
   brown in colour. It has clubbed antennae. The larva looks similar to a wax
   moth larva, but SHB larva has only 3 pairs of larger pronounced legs and
   spines along the length of it's body. Also, SHB larva does not spin a
   cocoon in the hive. Larval SHB attack the developing stages of bees and can
   kill bee colonies if colonies are not treated.
   See:
   http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/food/inspection/bees/info-shb.htm
   - >These beetles have been found in Essex County, Ontario. >They are
   also present in New York State within 5 km of the >Ontario border and in
   Michigan. Beetles were also confirmed >in the province of Quebec along the
   United States/Quebec >border in 2008 and 2009.

I hope Lake Erie is a sufficient buffer and barrier....

Dennis
Western New York, USA

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