AHBICs Danny Le Feuvre had agreed to be interviewed.  

Here are a few questions we would like to answered after the super spreading event at the Almonds . 

How long has varroa been in Australia? (The information we have is 2 years)

If we move to management will AHBIC be advocating for all beekeepers to get their hives back in the red zones and for the complete end of Fipronil baiting?

If Varroa makes it interstate will AHBIC endorse further Fipronil baiting and killing hives interstate? 

Is AHBIC still pushing that eradication is possible?  If not who is making the decision to continue poisoning and killing?

If stoping the spread of varroa is so important why have AHBIC lobbied for commercial hives from nsw to be able to go to Almond pollination and across borders? 

Sugar shake tests and alcohol tests are not reliable indicators of an early infection of varroa yet AHBIC have lobbied for commercial beekeepers to be allowed to travel after doing a small percentage of tests. If it’s not possible to efficiently test hives why risk spreading varroa by allowing them to move?

Have there been any studies that AHBIC have access to on on the effect of Fipronil on of target species like native bees and native fauna? 

Please share the studies? 

How will the fiprinol in the environment be cleaned up?  Is it true you will sacrifice honeybees to clean up the poison?

Does Fipronil poisoning cause a chain reaction of colony collapses in wild(feral) colonies? Do you acknowledge the poison is so effective it can kill more than one hive and it also has the ability to kill of target species? 

If varroa is such a risk to an Australia and it only takes one mite why risk spreading the mite through migratory beekeeping why is migratory beekeeping allowed?

Large pollination at high risk of spreading the mite have been allowed to move from red and purple zones even interstate why the double standard? 

One of the triggers to go to management was compliance knowing the human condition meant some were not complying why didn’t this not trigger a change to AHBICs policy to eradicate?

We have seen neonicotinoids and glyphosate banned in Europe an other places for its effect of bees and contaminantion of honey.  What is AHBICs stance on Neonicotinoids and Glyphosate? 

C4 testing of imported honey is not effective test as it doesn’t pick up all adulteration why doesn’t AHBIC endorse NMR testing?