Small hive beetle management options
Primefact Number: 764 Edition: First edition Released/reviewed: 01 Mar 2008
Small hive beetle is a scavenger of honey bee colonies that originated from sub-Saharan Africa and was first identified in Australia in October, 2002.
A number of management options are available, both for the apiary and for the colonies themselves.
This Primefact cover the following topics:
- Current distribution
- Spread
- Life cycle
- Identification
- Finding SHB in a hive
- Potential damage
- Management strategies
- Equipment recovery after SHB damage
- Future control methods
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