Bee industry leaders get stinging rebuke from Labour
April 2, 2015
From: TVNZ ONE News (New Zealand)
Leaders of the bee industry were given a stinging rebuke at Parliament today during a briefing at the Primary Production select committee.
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‘Varroa the most expensive biosecurity failure’
Regarding other challenges facing the bee industry, Mr Leahy told the select committee that the varroa mite continued to be the biggest problem and “most expensive biosecurity failure” in this country costing around $25 million a year in extra labour and mitigating actions.
Mr Leahy estimated that since varroa had infected New Zealand bees over the past 14 years it had cost the industry around $240 million to control.
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