| Re: (Varroa mite) It's in Hilo! |
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Group: soc.culture.hawaii · Group Profile
Author: Maren at googleMaren at google Date: Sep 3, 2008 21:05
On Sep 2, 6:40 am, al Guacamole lava.net> wrote:> "Aloha na hoa: Dr. Lyle Wong, Chief of the Plant Industry
> Division, Hawaii Department of Agriculture informed me this
> afternoon that Varroa destructor mites were detected today
> infesting honey bees caught in a sentinel swarm trap
> deployed by the HDOA at the Hilo Seaside Hotel near the
> center of Hilo town on the island of Hawai`i.
It would help if they published some information how to check
one's own hive(s), and/or where to get a miticide.
I really honestly don't want to have to become a member
of yet another outfit to get that information ...
All that's published is a "pest hotline" with no information about
what the recipient of the phone call is going to do. Having some
inside information ("we don't want to deal with you small plant
growers, we only want to deal with certified nurseries" - no, that
didn't happen to me, and it wasn't the HDOA) how those things
work (as in "we don't want you to do these things, leave it to the
experts") I'd like to be given some resources.
And no, we got no Superferry here.
Aloha,
Maren
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