We should ban then anyway and reopen trade after they can prove it's been eradicated. I can't remember any farmer claiming that foot and mouth should be declared endemic and their pain was a lot worse than that of Italian beekeepers.
We should ban then anyway and reopen trade after they can prove it's been eradicated. I can't remember any farmer claiming that foot and mouth should be declared endemic and their pain was a lot worse than that of Italian beekeepers.
Jon's comment makes me consider whether some beekeepers might try to keep their heads down (even hide colonies?) and then wait for the announcement that SHB can't be stopped and hey presto - instant colonies! As it is, a potential 100 euros (around £80) payment per lost colony isn't a lot when you consider pollination fees and honey production over the course of a couple of years. I cannot guess what loss of pollinators will do to harvests in the area where otherwise migratory beekeepers would be carting their bees in. Have any or many migratory beekeepers who have removed their bees from the area been examined?
Exactly. Whether or not beekeepers elsewhere in Italy would welcome inspections that would condemn their stocks and businesses, any bee from Italy is too much of a risk. The state of this outbreak shows it has been around long enough to have very likely already escaped the cordon.
The Sardinian beekeepers demanded a ban on bees from mainland Italy weeks ago. From this Google Translate effort it looks like a task force of academics, beekeeper representatives and public officials (not too sure about that last one) have repeated that call in the last few days.
Guys, do you know what the Welsh and Ulster beekeepers were taking to CONBA? The combined might of the UK organisations has to be pressing for the right things, and the BBKA seems to be in denial that moving bees is the main risk to be tackled first. We should be taking a lead from the Sardinians rather than the BBKA. CONBA also seems to be the route for UK beekeepers into Europe and it would be great to know what Europe and what other EU nations are doing.
http://apiaresosdearbaree.wordpress....ethina-tumida/
A task force for beekeeping Sardinia. Emergency small hive beetle
Posted by apiaresos under Reports and Communications
Leave a CommentYesterday, October 14 from 10:30 am until 13:30 forwarded to a meeting on the 4th floor of the 'Regional Health Department, issued by the board, has incignato a task force for three years will be committed to beekeeping. In the interests of sharing a part of it were called over to the vets with specific skills beekeeping from the corresponding services of ASL sardines (Marcello, Eat Massidda, Frau, Mulliri, Mocci, Balzano, Ganbrielli, Daga, Picoi), Laore ( more), the Service of the Regional Agriculture Production (Piras), the Forestry Department of Environmental Surveillance (Foddis, Lampreu), the University of Sassari (Floris) and representatives of beekeepers: Giuseppe Sardi Beekeepers Bellosi to the Committee, Franco Anedda for the Consortium Beekeepers Sardis, Joseph Caboni for the OP Terra Antiga and the writer for Apiaresos. The meeting was called to discuss a calamity, which we hope to beekeeping Sardinian, not next venture: the small hive beetle. Dr Paper set out the reasons which have led the Department to form this structure, while Dr. Marcello, who is the regional representative, drew attention to the fact that the threat dell'Aethina tumida can be effectively controlled by applying, in addition to a ban on imports of bees from the Peninsula, the rules currently in force. Law 30, said the Marcellus, which includes a series of rules, well known to beekeepers, which regulate the movement of hives, but also the complaint of their possession. The prof. Floris has offered a broad overview of the beetle: the specific taxonomy of the parasite to the phenomenology of diffusion, by monitoring the traps to catch. E 'followed by the intervention of Dr. Mulliri who illustrated the ministerial instructions on how to perform surveillance in the areas of competence of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces in respect of the apiaries deemed at risk for the small hive beetle infestation. It is therefore open and wide ranging discussion that touched, inevitably, the most diverse subjects. Among other things, the representatives of the beekeepers have highlighted the objective difficulty of reconstructing any purchases made by bees from beekeepers in Calabria Sardinia immediately of the discovery official dell'Aethina. It is also believed that in twenty instances for the purchase of bees financed by EC Reg. Few or perhaps none in 1234 relate to material from Calabria. Since, according to that rule, the sale of bees must be done for emission certification requirements, a verification capillary at the manufacturers who sold Calabrian bees in Sardinia, may be nullifying. Correctly some of the services called to be part of this group (Laore, CFVA, Department of Agriculture) have declared their availability, provided as part of their institutional responsibilities. The ministerial instructions would place Sardinia in an area in the medium risk, which therefore provides for the intervention of monitoring for herds with at least 300 hives. The writer has observed that it is possible that beekeepers with the size of the company or enterprise owners highly professionalized and upgraded, to know easily identify the presence dell'Aethina in hives and can communicate it to veterinary services, facilitating much work given, it would seem, 8 veterinarians for the entire Island. Doubts persist for beekeepers and newcomers with company size well below, on which much more relevant would be the monitoring carried out by the veterinary services. In this regard, the option suggested by Prof. Floris is that of an external intervention exclusively with the placement of diagnostic traps at 150 m. dall'apiario, thus avoiding a more extensive work within the hive. It notes with satisfaction that the final outcome of yesterday's meeting, summarized by Dr. Carta, are coincident with the Apiaresos with a specific instance, sent 2 October alderman of Health, of which we reproduce below the full text, he asked. That is: total ban on imports of bees in Sardinia; contextual start of monitoring. But Apiaresos has also offered the availability of its technicians bee for the monitoring activities. On the hot topic dell'Aethina tumida, Apiaresos has scheduled a meeting of shareholders for Wednesday, October 29, at 17.30, at the head office in Piazza Roma in Marriottsville. It will be a full and partial intervention lead by Umberto Vesco in two days of November, developed by engineers at Apiaresos, on the basis of a detailed documentary material prepared by CRT dell'UNAAPI.
Luigi Manias
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Ales 10/02/2014
Dear
Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Department of hygiene and health and social care
Councillor Dr ca. Luigi Benedetto Arru
Via Roma, 223-09123 Cagliari
Subject: Measures to mitigate beetle small hive beetle
Apiaresos is the only association of beekeepers existing in Sardinia, which operates without interruption from 1987 Sardinian beekeeping is looming in the near future a terrible threat that could be dispelled with the immediate implementation of appropriate restrictive measures by Codest Department. On September 5, in the town of Gioia Tauro (RC) was officially reported the presence dell'Athina tumida. It is a parasite of the bee beetle native to South Africa, which causes considerable damage to the hives destroying stocks of pollen and honey; irreversibly compromising the brood and the hive condemning extinction.
Apiaresos therefore asks that steps be taken to block the importation of queen bees and swarms from the mainland to the island to prevent the spread of the beetle. Yes also requests that the competent bodies to take steps to organize an appropriate monitoring network to ensure the regional allowance from parasites in question. The Association Apiaresos it provides through its members, technical beekeeping, veterinary lp to collaborate with relevant bodies in order to maintain the state of allowance from the dangerous beetle.
Sardinia, according to the results of the analyzes of these last years of laboratory CRA -API of Bologna, boasts a genetic heritage that sees today hold one of the lines of Italian bee (ligustica) more intact. Therefore, the allowance by the fearsome beetle, with respect to the probable and endemic spread in the Peninsula, would provide important opportunities for beekeepers islanders of income in the sale of nuclei of bees and queen bees.
Best regards
The President
John Schirra
So there we have it.
Declare SHB within the red circle endemic and stop hive destruction and stop compensation payouts (how many hives had been split overnight into 3+ boxes to get compensation) Italy probably cant afford these payouts anyhow.
This allows the more valuable to the ecomony essential commercial pollination into the area and continue with "move bees in" and "move beetles out" so extending the red circle. Just what the commercial beekeepers want.
Meanwhile, as all Italy is declared endemic then the beetle will march towards Britain. Same thing will happen, a few hives will be destroyed at the point of entry , compensation fund will dry up, until someone realizes that the beetle has been around too long. Then Ireland ? (I bet Ebola gets here first)
Originally Posted by Rosie
It will NEVER NEVER NEVER be eradicated
Any ban should stay in place then until it's endemic here.
You can see why the Sardinians think the way they do. An island provides a natural boundary which could stop the arrival of SHB if imports are banned.
I would guess the best case scenario is a slow advance across Italy and in the worst case there will be fresh outbreaks far from this current one.
Both GB and Ireland have a natural defense if there is legislation put in place to stop imports. The bbka should wake up and smell the coffee. Mind you the UBKA drafted a very wishy washy statement which did not call for a ban on imports. The NIHBS statement was clear enough.
Has Bibba put out a statement or done any lobbying with the BBKA?
Individual committee members have but nothing has been done officially yet. I am hoping something will come out of the next exec meeting.
Looks like hive beetle cases in Italy are sitting at 48 apairy sites, all are within the plain bounded by the mountains/hills. I'm sure there will be more cases
Why should there be any compensation for the destruction of colonies? Is there any EU compensation when colonies with AFB are destroyed? What about the damage caused by Varroa to millions of colonies across the EU - any compensation for die offs? If it were another kind of livestock (pigs/cows/sheep chickens) there would be lots of compensation and concern - but as it is only a load of stupid bees and beekeepers just write it off.
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