Dear members, 

Please find the latest on the response to varroa in a story from the ABC. 

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All the best, 

Jo Martin 

A boom in beekeeping in the Pacific has helped improve yield and quality for more than 30 per cent of the country's pollination-dependent crops, but it comes at an inopportune time as Fiji grapples with a varroa mite invasion and adverse weather events. 

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The discovery of a small hive beetle in a beehive in the north-west of Tasmania has rocked the state's honey bee industry.

The small hive beetle has been described as a "shocking pest" by the president of the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association, Lindsay Bourke.

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There have been new detections of the deadly varroa mite in beehives at two locations on the NSW Mid North Coast, linked to the illegal movement of beehives.

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A well-known beekeeper from Echuca has been fined after pleading guilty to breaching biosecurity laws, including failing to notify authorities of hives infected with American and European foulbrood.

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From all over Australia to war-torn Ukraine, snow-covered Maine, and the Mongolian Steppes: Passionate women from around the globe have set a new world for "the most photos of women beekeeping uploaded in 24 hours."

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Australian manuka honey producers have scored a win over their trans-Tasman rivals after New Zealand producers backed out of legal action aimed at preventing them from using the descriptive word. 

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Australian states and territories are expected to revoke a ban on New South Wales bees and hives in the coming weeks.

It comes after authorities voted to declare the NSW General Emergency Zone, or blue zone, free of the deadly varroa mite. 

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted conditional approval for a vaccine to protect honey bees from American foulbrood (AFB), but it's how they administer it that has Australian researchers and beekeepers excited.

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Brad Poile was met with an unpleasant post-Christmas surprise when checking his beehives in the Benandarah State Forest, just north of Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast, last month.

Expecting to find several boxes of hives side-by-side, he instead found they had been ransacked, and seven hives were missing.

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