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Re: Small Hive Beetle
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John Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:30:43 -0700
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After being gone for a week, I found this message, and am frankly
astonished that it generated no responses. If true, this is probably the
single most important message I have ever seen posted on this newsgroup.
    - John Edwards

Robert Roach wrote:

> Merced County California has detected Small Hive Beetle or SHB (Aethina
> tumida Murray)
> during a routine apiary strength inspection of 198 colonies on 2-28-01.
> CDFA Meadowview lab confirmed the sample on 3-2-01.  The bees were
> originally purchased from an out-of-business Florida based
> operation.  The colonies traveled from Florida to Maine to
> North Dakota and then to California in October of 2000.

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