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DEPI Honey Bee Emergency
Response Preparedness Geelong 16/1/15
What are the threats?
Tracheal mite Tropilaelaps mite Varroa mite
Asian honey bee Dwarf honey bee Giant honey bee
Plus others!
To achieve the best biosecurity
protection for Victoria, it is important
that we strategically focus our efforts
using the resources that we have.
National Bee Pest
Surveillance Program
DEPI Sentinel Hives
• Melbourne 5
• Westernport 1
• Geelong 5
• Portland 2
Industry DEPI partnership sentinel hives
• Melbourne 6
• Westernport 4
• Geelong 9
• Portland 1
National Bee Pest
Surveillance Program
Total Sentinel Hives
• Melbourne 11
• Westernport 5
• Geelong 14
• Portland 3
National Bee Pest
Surveillance Program
Victorian Government’s Growing
Food and Fibre initiative
DEPI Swarm Catch Boxes
• Melbourne 28
• Westernport 6
• Geelong 12
• Portland 7
• Tullamarine Airport 8
Swarm capture at Ports
Catch Boxes
Port of Geelong
2014
Sentinel Hives
DEPI presentations for Shipping Australia
includes all key 22 players in shipping and
container movement within Victoria / Australia
Victorian Government’s Growing
Food and Fibre initiative
Reality reminders…….
2013 Varroa jacobsonni interception at Sydney
Port
2014 Apis cerana interception at the Port of
Townsville
Silo dust extracting unit – Geelong Port
Brood uncapping
DEPI - DAFF Swarm Management
May 2013 – Nov 2014
QAP Tullamarine
Geelong refinery
Swanston Dock
Geelong Refinery Portland Smelter
Geelong GrainCorp
Geelong Corio Quay
East Melbourne Emerald Grain
Sandringham Marina
Port of Hastings
Westgate Park
Portland
DEPI State Quarantine Response
Team (SQRT)
102 hobby and industry members
• Unit: Work effectively in an emergency
disease or plant pest response
• Cert III in Public Safety – Biosecurity
Response operations
DEPI Staff Honey Bee Emergency
Response Team
• 33 staff trained in 2014 for SQRT field
supervisory roles
• 8 strike team apiary staff trained for rapid
emergency response
DEPI Staff Honey Bee Emergency
Response Team
Sugar Shake Varroa Surveillance
Program
177 participants
Sugar Shake Varroa Surveillance
Program
Varroa AFB SHB
Nosema sp.
Chalk-
Brood
DEPI’s priority……………….
Surveillance and preparedness for
incursions of exotic parasitic mites
and in particular, varroa.