Brian Fredericksen  wrote

"so you have lots of small hive beetles in Canada ? Eh? and TM resistant 
AFB? "

We do have TM resistant AFB, it's not rampant but it isn't going away 
either.
I believe one small hive beetle was found in 2005 in manitoba, in a bee 
yard in which Australian packages had been installed the year before, 
Anyone please correct me if I am wrong.Previously several years back an 
infestation of beetles was found at a wax rendering plant,a  load of wax 
had come from one of the southern states, all the beetles were eradicated 
but not before infesting one of the local beekeepers hives.
As  it has been stated before the wintering verses package bees is 
whipping a dead horse.The pros and cons have been well debated. Eh?

Perhaps it is a good thing that border is closed  ( thought I would never 
say that)  we would only have more colonies and more honey to sell.Did not 
agree with the way CFIA did it or their logic behind it.Africanized bees 
have yet to be proven as a threat to the Canadian  honey industry and that 
was 20 years ago.I guess we all better get used to more government 
involement in our buissness and personal lives,after 9/11 the world 
definetly changed.

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