Pests and diseases of honey bees
Honey bees may be affected by a range of pests and diseases. The list below contains information about specific pests and diseases from a collection of sources, as well as regulatory information and forms.
Small hive beetle larvae
Emergency and notifiable animal diseases
- Emergency animal diseases
can have serious consequences for trade, production or human health. Contact a vet or call the emergency animal disease watch hotline on
1800 675 888
if you see symptoms or deaths in animals that may be due to an emergency animal disease. - Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
A number of animal diseases, including all emergency animal diseases, are notifiable under NSW legislation. This means there's a legal obligation to notify authorities if you know or suspect that an animal has one of these diseases. - Notifiable animal disease form (PDF 44KB)
You can use this form to notify the knowledge or suspicion of a notifiable animal disease.
General information
- Non-infectious disorders of honey bees
- Sugar shaking bees to detect external parasites
- Honey bee endemic diseases and pest notification requirements
- Submitting samples to NSW DPI for diagnostic tests
- Samples for bee disease diagnosis
- Honey bee endemic diseases and pest notification
100.5 kb - Fatty acids: an alternative control strategy for honeybee diseases (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Exotic pests of honey bees
Foulbrood disease of honey bees
- American foulbrood - barrier systems
- American foulbrood
- American foulbrood in NSW
- American foulbrood - tracing the source
- American foulbrood disease - inspection management
- American foulbrood positive diagnosis - what should you do?
- American foulbrood disease - sending beehive material for irradiation
- American foulbrood disease Paenibacillus larvae in New South Wales apiaries, Survey Results 2006
- AFB traceback form 27.2 kb
- Irradiation of beehive equipment - information from Steritech (www.steritech.com.au)
- European foulbrood and its control
Chalkbrood disease of honey bees
- Chalkbrood disease of bees (video)
- Chalkbrood (www.pir.sa.gov.au)
- Literature review of chalkbrood: a fungal disease of honeybees (www.rirdc.gov.au)
Small hive beetle in honey bees
- Small hive beetle
- Small hive beetle - an in-hive control device using diatomaceous earth 133.8 kb
- Small hive beetle management options
- Study of the small hive beetle in the USA (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Small Hive Beetle Aethina tumida in New South Wales Apiaries 2002-6 Survey Results 2006 391.6 kb
- APVMA Permit PER11297 - Soil treatment (services.apvma.gov.au)
- APVMA Permit PER10277 - Diatomaceous earth (services.apvma.gov.au)