Scot.
The U.S. news release  said the SHB find came in from Australia.

 Sooner or later SHB will find its way into Australia package producers 
hives and will be an issue. Medhat and myself are only presenting the facts 
as we know right now.

Has not the list learned from our posts?
 
An article being published by two California beekeepers in October says 
about Australain packages that they are "free of varroa but not small hive 
beetle".

Not true ! 

No package shipment sent in the U.S. or Canada has had the form checked as 
containing SHB to my knowledge (and information I recieved three nights 
ago). The form has all items the countries have asked checked for on the 
form. Only those present are checked.

I live in Northwest Missouri and we have never had a small hive beetle find 
in the hives of Busy Bee Acres Apiairies inc. or Bell Hill Honey Farm. 

One year all the hives were inspected four times by various inspectors!

 Hives from these operations have been going into California each year for 
a long time. No beetles brought back. 

Other areas of Missouri like the bootheel and the St. Louis area have got 
plenty of SHB. Eventually the whole state will get SHB I suppose but for 
now our area is SHB free. LIKE AREAS OF AUSTRALIA!

My honey house (HH)is full of supers to be extracted this week which have 
been in the HH for up to a month. No SHB!

Outside are some deadouts which SHB could not resist! No SHB!

I have been sitting out pallets of extracting supers with a small amount of 
nectar or honey to be cleaned up by the bees before going into the storage 
container. Some have had brood in before. No SHB!

I am actually suprised at us not getting SHb before now since the first SHB 
finds were over five years ago! 



In Australia some package people might not get SHB for another five years.

 

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