Hello everyone. For several years the SHB have been around our area in Central Florida. As far as the most effective organic control for the SHB, it is IPM for Varroa. We have not lost the first mating nuc, colony nor queen cell builder to SHB. As long as our colonies are in fair shape Varroa free queenless or queen right no SHB will damaged them. Our operation consists of 3800 mating nucs managed year around, and 400 colonies as breeders and cell builders. We caged 9 rounds of queens and produced just over 100,000 finished queen cells of which most are for sales to other beekeepers as queen cells. Our work crew are only family members, 3 full time and 2 part timers. David Andrew Miksa 13404 Honeycomb Road Groveland, Florida 34736 352-429-3447 fax 352-429-9133 [log in to unmask]