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    Default Possible small hive beetle in Switzerland

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    well it is a dark day today indeed. Kanton Uri (Switzerland) has a suspected case of hive beatle.
    So it is over the Apls now. Just about 100km away from me.

    I recommend you all urgently write to your MP and whoever else you can think of to have all bee imports from mainland Europe stopped forthwith.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
    Hi
    well it is a dark day today indeed. Kanton Uri (Switzerland) has a suspected case of hive beatle.
    So it is over the Apls now. Just about 100km away from me.

    I recommend you all urgently write to your MP and whoever else you can think of to have all bee imports from mainland Europe stopped forthwith.
    Bad news indeed if it turns out to be confirmed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
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    well it is a dark day today indeed. Kanton Uri (Switzerland) has a suspected case of hive beatle.
    So it is over the Apls now. Just about 100km away from me.

    I recommend you all urgently write to your MP and whoever else you can think of to have all bee imports from mainland Europe stopped forthwith.
    Do you have a source for this story Calum ? Bad news indeed

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    Quote Originally Posted by greengumbo View Post
    Do you have a source for this story Calum ? Bad news indeed
    http://www.urnerwochenblatt.ch/start.asp?level=2
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    I hope I'm correct when I say that the image looks like fly maggots feeding on the remains of a winter die out cluster, I have seem similar before in dead hives. Then i cant read the language.

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    There's a German PDF document with what looks like more detail at www.vdrb.ch. My German is between non-existent and very poor but there does seem to be more detail than was in the link Calum posted.
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    That link confirms it is SHB in Switzerland although google translate is a bit ropey.
    And to think we have people currently importing bees from Italy into Scotland and elsewhere.
    Some people get to take the risk on behalf of all the rest of us. Does not seem fair.


    Homepage VDRB 31-03-15_B Reihl.docx
    Page 1 of 2
    Normal.dotm
    Version 06.08.2010
    Suspected of being infected with the "Small hive beetle"
    first north of the Alps and in
    of Switzerland
    28 March 2015, a histori for us beekeepers
    Che's date in the negative sense be.
    For the first time in a beekeeping operation in the canton of U
    ri suspicious larvae of the small diffraction
    tenkäfers discovered. That suspicion is confirmed, Hea
    re in September 2014 in Southern Italy
    honey bee pest discovered for the first time north of the Alp
    s and appeared in Switzerland. Here
    the chronology of events from the perspective of competent
    ended bee inspectors of the original cantons
    Vik Gisler and Bruno Reihl:
    18 March 2015: Beekeeper controls its peoples and
    rated the later infected people as
    its strongest at its booth.
    March 25, 2015: The bee inspectors of the original cantons
    lead for all beekeepers Uri / -Innen a
    Compulsory information session by. They show di
    e of damage, the possible recognition
    voltage characteristics of the adult beetle and its larvae u
    nd explain the planned fight
    tion measures. At the end of the event gets hurt
    t every beekeeper / each beekeeper a diffraction
    tenkäfer trap of the type "Beetle Blaster", which between
    rule, the honeycomb is hung.
    March 28, 2015: The beekeeper wants the traps in his
    Swiss installing boxes and finds just the
    first, most people who suspect larvae
    .
    while all bees are already dead (see photo).
    He
    calls Vik Gisler, Uri bee inspector to help
    .
    the immediate Bruno Reihl, the Chief Bieneninspek-
    tor may call in. They decide the entire goods
    sample material frozen at minus 12 degrees,
    Eggs, nymphs and adults of the Little Beutenkä-
    fers been shown to kill. The beehive
    is cleaned according to the foulbrood measures
    and sterilized. In all other peoples on the Beach
    and
    traps are used.
    March 29, 2015: The bee inspectors perform a
    Control of all peoples on the affected state
    by. There are no signs of a further
    Infestation. Inform the cantonal veterinary officer Andreas
    Ewy that comes immediately on site and the
    affected beekeepers both very grateful that he from
    absolutely did the right thing, but also well
    continuing a lock state as a necessary seuchenbehördl
    cozy measure pronounce.
    30 March 2015: Crisis meeting in Veterinary Office of Ur
    Cantonese in wells. The other meas-
    measures are advised. Bruno Reihl reckons that
    see all larvae are of equal length, ie at the
    the same day were set as egg, on a single
    nes females suggesting. With the length
    of about 6 mm (size of a honeycomb cell, see
    Photo), the larvae are about 6 days old.
    Moreover, the egg-life of 3 days, so that the egg
    deposit before a total of 9 days, ie on 19th
    Could be carried out in March (uncertainty: 1 day). The
    is a day after the beekeeper the people
    had controlled than alive. It means a
    ber also that the larvae still 5-7
    Need days to devel to migrating larvae
    eln, get 6 legs and thus from
    can also run the hive to be in the Earth
    burying ground and verpup-
    groups. After 4 weeks, they would as adult beetles
    crawl out again to new bidders
    nenvölker to attack. This is our chance.

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    And it must be obvious that the arrival was via a migratory beekeeper or an importer as the beetles are not going to jump the length of Italy in one leap.

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    It really isn't looking good, but these are still 'suspect larvae' which have been sent to the reference laboratory for confirmation.

    I read somewhere that Swiss bee inspectors were invited to special training on 7th March so they *ought* to know what they are looking for.

    Ironically, the Swiss have recently agreed an import ban to help protect them from small hive beetle. Yet another reason for pressing once more to seek better protection for Scottish and UK beekeepers.

    http://genevalunch.com/2015/03/26/s-...en-swiss-ones/

    (Thanks to my special source for that one, you know who you are )
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    Quote Originally Posted by busybeephilip View Post
    I hope I'm correct when I say that the image looks like fly maggots feeding on the remains of a winter die out cluster, I have seem similar before in dead hives. Then i cant read the language.
    If this is an actual photo of the problem, and not a library pic, then you are spot on. If it is only a random maggotty pic then we have no idea. A lot of innocent wood wasps were splattered last autumn caused by a panicky mistaken identity.

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