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Re: Aethina
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M & T Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:40:41 +1000
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> In individual queen cages with attendants within I would agree.  But I
can imagive a few stow > away beetles in battery boxes with attendants
shaken in with the caged queens.

Medhat Nasr told me that when he was working in the USA he had found
small hive beetle (SHB)in battery boxes.  I agree that you will not get
SHB in cages that are hand caught and hand escorted.  You only need to
look at how the queen and escorts are caught to realise that the SHB
runs away to a dark corner of the nuc when you open the nuc.

Where cages are pre-escorted, I can imagine that there is a high
likelihood that you could get SHB in the cage with the escorts.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA


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