Dear Members, 

Please find the varroa mite update for the week ending 2 December 2022 attached below. 

QBA Varroa Destructor Update to Members 02122022.pdf

Should you have any questions in relation to this update, please email info@qbabees.org.au .

Kind regards, 

Jo Martin 

Dear Members, 

Please find the latest Varroa Mite update for the week ending 24th November 2022 attached below. 

Should you have any questions in relation to the update, please email us at info@qbabees.org.au 

Kind regards, 

Jo Martin 

Please find below the latest weekly update on the response to varroa and ongoing surveillance efforts in Queensland. 

• QBA Varroa Destructor Update to Members 171122.pdf
  

This week we remind our Brisbane Branch and Stanley River Branch members that your meetings are scheduled to take place on Friday 25th November (Brisbane) and Saturday 26th November (Stanley River). 

Members of the Brisbane Branch can access more information about the upcoming meeting by visiting the Brisbane Branch subpage in the members website. Please note you will need to log in to the website to access the information. Please use the link below to access the Brisbane Branch page.

• QBA Brisbane Branch
  

Members of the Stanley River Branch can access more information about the upcoming meeting by visiting the Stanley River Branch subpage in the members website. Again, members will need to log in to the website to access the information. Please use the link below to access the Stanley River Branch page. 

• QBA Stanley River Branch
  

Bee Biosecurity Officer Dave Schlipalius will attend both meetings to provide an update to the current response to varroa in Queensland. 

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

Please find below the latest weekly update relating to the response to varroa and the ongoing surveillance efforts in Queensland. 

• QBA Varroa Destructor Update to Members 13112022.pdf
  

We urge all members to conduct mite surveillance checks immediately and report all results to the Bee 123 portal. Click here to learn more about reporting varroa mite surveillance. 

Kind Regards, 

Jo Martin. 

Please find attached below, the latest weekly update on the response to varroa (QLD). 

Of note, we've added extra content this week by way of the Bee 123 map of surveillance data collected across Queensland since the 13th July 2022 with an explanation as to why industry surveillance data is critical to the national response to the detection of varroa in Australia. 

We urge all beekeepers to undertake surveillance checks and report all findings to the Bee 123 portal as soon as physically possible. Members are reminded that if you have completed surveillance however, you've overlooked reporting your activities, the portal will accept backdated surveillance reports. 

Should you have any questions with regards to this latest update, please feel free to contact me via email (info@qbabees.org.au) or phone 0498 000 496.

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

The QBA weekly varroa mite update for the week ending 26th October 2022 can be accessed via the attachment below.

We continue to actively encourage all beekeepers to complete varroa mite surveillance checks as a matter of priority and ensure all results are reported to the Bee 123 portal.

A Movement control order remains in place restricting the movement of bees/hives/carriers of varroa into Queensland. For more information on movement restrictions please visit the DAF Engagement Hub by clicking here. 

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

The QBA weekly varroa mite update for the week ending 12th October 2022 can be accessed via the attachment below.

We continue to actively encourage all beekeepers to complete varroa mite surveillance checks as a matter of priority and ensure all results are reported to the Bee 123 portal.

A Movement control order remains in place restricting the movement of bees/hives/carriers of varroa into Queensland. For more information on movement restrictions please visit the DAF Engagement Hub by clicking here. 

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

I am pleased to advise the recording of the recent Biosecurity Queensland webinar 'Varroa mite update- applying for a biosecurity instrument permit and reporting through Bee 123' has now been uploaded to the Biosecurity Queensland YouTube channel. 

If you missed the webinar (broadcast on the 11th October 2022) we strongly encourage you to click the link here to watch the webinar at a time suitable to you. 

Participants on the night were invited to put questions forward in the live Q&A. Unfortunately due to time constraints not all questions could be answered on the night. QBA asked that all questions submitted to the live Q&A were answered and published to the DAF E-hub website.

If you are interested in reading questions from industry to government I urge you to visit the link by clicking here.  

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

The QBA weekly varroa mite update for the week ending 12th October 2022 can be accessed via the attachment below.

• QBA VD Update to Members 12102022.pdf
  

We continue to actively encourage all beekeepers to complete varroa mite surveillance checks as a matter of priority and ensure all results are reported to the Bee 123 portal.

A Movement control order remains in place restricting the movement of bees/hives/carriers of varroa into Queensland. For more information on movement restrictions please visit the DAF Engagement Hub by clicking here. 

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary

Biosecurity Queensland will be hosting another webinar focused on the current surveillance operations currently occurring in response to the Varroa detection in NSW. 

The webinar is scheduled to take place at 7pm, Tuesday 11th October (tomorrow). The live webinar will cover the following topics:

• Queensland situation update
• Applying for a biosecurity instrument permit to move bee equipment into Queensland 
• Reporting surveillance data to the Bee 123 online survey form. 

There's no need to register to attend this virtual event, just click the link here to join in on the night or watch the recording of the webinar at a later time via the Biosecurity Queensland YouTube playlist. Click here to view past webinar recordings.

There will be a live question and answer session included within the webinar, however should you have a particular question relating to any of the three topics covered, please email your question to Queensland Bee Biosecurity Officer Dr Dave Schlipalius using the email address dave.schlipalius@daf.qld.gov.au 

We actively encourage all members to dial in and view this live webinar. Please feel free to share this email with anyone you see fit to assist the QBA in communicating this message more broadly. 

Kind regards,

Jo Martin 

QBA State Secretary