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Bleak Yes I would agree that things do look a little bleak
for U.S. honeybees with continued importation of Canadian
honeybees fresh off
the airplane from New Zealand with the following
honeybee pests and diseases known to be on the N.Z.
honeybees.
Regarding Ted Fisher request for New Zealand Honeybee health report
Mr. Cliff Van Eaton, Apiculture Advisory Officer
MAF Quality Management, Tauranga,New Zealand
Wrote to bee-l and reported the following list of pest and disease
known to exist on NZ honeybees 4/19/96
1American Foul Brood
2 Nosema
3Chalkbrood
4Sacbrood
5 cronic bee paralysis
6 black queen cell
7 acute bee paralysis virus
8 cloudy wing virus
9 bee virus X
10 bee virus Y
11 filamentous virus
12 KASHMIR BEE VIRUS
13 Amoeba disease
Mites
14 Melittiphis alvearius
15 Acarapis externus
16 A. dorsalis
17 Neocypholaelaps zealandicus
And not reported by Cliff Van Eaton
18. Melanoius found to be on NZ honeybees by Dr. T.P.Liu in Canada
Granted that all of the disease's are not being introduced to the
North American Continent for the first time and they are assuredly
spreading these pests around the U.S. and no one seems to care.
The BEE RESEARCH LABORATORY ( BRL ) a part of the USDA
seems to have no interest in the spreading of the pests to America's
honeybees from sea to shinning sea .Much information has been
released by BRL this spring and summer as more and more people
have noticed the absence of honeybees in the United States and the
increase in honey prices due in part to the stellar losses experienced
by Canadian and US bee keepers from the two blood sucking mites
and no mention of the increased incidence of Viruses and the truth
that honeybees with mites and viruses have no chance for recovery,
or is this what our BS bee scientist leader at BRL wants to call
l a bad case of PMS?
What kind of disaster is going to be needed to get the American
beekeeper to wake up and get organized and demand a reorganization
of the BEE RESEARCH LABORATORY. Sitting back and letting the
status quo continue into the future is only going to let the problem get
bigger and bigger . The BRL has one person working on Viruses of
honeybees andI am told that the BRL has no opinion as to the origin of KBV
and I am referred to Dr. Brenda Ball in England. The BRL has to date no
ability to test honeybees for KBV and they refer me to DR Anderson in Australia.
I mean wait a minute this is the United States of America that is having
to defer me to other countries for information that should be available to
the US beekeeper. Now I hear that Australia has requested to send their
honeybees to the U S and the BRL seems to enamored with southern
hemisphere honeybees.
We need to get organized.
Aloha
Walter Patton
Walter & Elisabeth Patton, 27-703 A Ka' ie'ie Rd., Papaikou HI.,96781
Ph./Fax. 808-964-5401 E-Mail hihoney@ilhawaii
Beekeeper and Bed & Breakfast Owner in Hawaii
http://www.alohamall.com/hamakua/hihoney.htm
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http://www.alohamall.com/hamakua/lamalani.htm
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