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> How long does it take for a colony to go from 0/300 to 50/300 without any nearby mite bombs from Treatment Free (TF) Beekepers?
But in NSW, all colonies are "treatment free" due to a historical lack of varroa.
The mites only need to get lucky once to get in, the biosecurity has to be perfect every day to keep them out.
Back when the first SHB appeared in a single hobbyist's hives near Norfolk, VA decades ago, every beekeepers in the state was happy to make the unlucky beekeeper whole, and double his number of hives to make him feel better, but the state of VA refused to napalm the hives and ground-drench the site with GuardStar, despite the completely legality of flame throwers in every US state except MD and CA (as they are considered tools rather than weapons).
What the state apiarist did not seem to grasp was that "not TODAY Mr. Small Hive Beetle" was a good enough outcome worth the expense and trouble, and on the excuse of "privacy", the identity of the unlucky beekeeper (who got his SHB in packages from the Southeaster USA) mere beekeepers were never even given a chance approach the beekeeper directly, and it was never revealed what (if anything) was done to attempt to control the spread.
The various US states seem to employ people who have resigned themselves to the "inevitability" of pathogen/pest spread, except for foulbrood, which they think they still need to worry about for reasons that I cannot fathom.
But "not today" is all we can ever say. It is yet another example of why the price of honey is eternal vigilance.
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