Know Your Enemy - Small Hive Beetle

摘要

This spring/summer Manitoba imported 13,634 queens from Hawaii and MAFRI inspected a total of 9,582 for the presence of Small Hive Beetle (SHB). In five (5) separate shipments of queens from Hawaii beetle specimens were collected and identified as SHB. Below are the detailed results of the Hawaiian import inspections. The small hive beetle was first found in Canada in 2002. It was accidentally imported with a shipment of unprocessed beeswax sent to Manitoba for rendering. The beetle population in Manitoba failed to establish and died off during the winter. In 2006, the small hive beetle was accidentally imported into Canada again, but this time in shipment of package bees from Australia. Again the small hive beetle population failed to establish. More recently it has been discovered in southern Quebec (2008) and South Western Ontario (2010) where quarantine and eradication programs have been used to control the establishment of the pest and to prevent it from spreading to other areas.