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Mid shot bee keepers at training session 2. Close up beekeeper 3. Pan from beehive frame to bee trainer Peter Kaczynski 4. UPSOUND (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCastlemaine, Victoria - July 23rd, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid shot bee keepers at training session \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up beekeeper \u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan from beehive frame to bee trainer Peter Kaczynski \u003cbr/\u003e4. UPSOUND (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of Primary Industries: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If you wear glasses to read, you should wear glasses for this job.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot beekeepers\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up beekeepers covered in bees \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot beekeeper pulls out frame \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up beekeeper searches for varroa with tweezers \u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot beekeepers \u003cbr/\u003e10. UPSOUND (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of Primary Industries:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Larvae comes out and the varroa on those larvae will be very very easy to see.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot Peter Kaczynski with beekeepers \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up beehive test \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of Primary Industries:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"They'll be looking for the field signs of the mite and the mites are quite easy to identify. What we showed them today are the methods we'd like them to use so that everyone's doing the same thing, show them how we can test with insecticide strips and test with sugar shake, another method of identification. And show them what the visual signs of varroa look like.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid shot bee keepers holding beehive frame \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up beehive frame covered in bees \u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up beekeeper wiping away bees from face \u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid shot beekeeper puts lid on hive \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter McDonald, Apiarist:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"It jumped across from the Asian honey bee to the European honey bee and the European honey bee is the one that most bee keeping countries in the world use because it's a prolific producer of honey. The European honey bee hasn't evolved the defence mechanisms that allow it to survive with the varroa mite.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e19. Pan from beekeeper, Peter McDonald, to beehive frame \u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid shot Peter McDonald searching hive \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of Primary Industries: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Unfortunately it may only be a matter of time. In not so many years gone by varroa was almost on the other side of the world but recently it has been found in New Zealand and because of the amount of container traffic and other traffic that comes across from New Zealand to the Melbourne, Ports in Australia it may well be brought in in that way.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot hives beneath tree \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up bees flying in air \u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (English) Elwyne Papworth, Apiarist and Pollinator: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There are crops such as almonds, there's over a 100,000 hives needed for almonds and those numbers won't be available in good condition if we get varroa into the country in the future.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up bees \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot silhouette of beehives \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter McDonald, Apiarist: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If they got here, yes its very serious because it could dramatically effect the amount of bees there are, and also it will dramatically effect the amount of wild bees there are, because at the moment its artificial treatments that's the thing that allows us to control the varroa mite and its effect on the bee, and the wild bees don't have that artificial treatment so they'll be dwindling right down until there'll be virtually no wild bees left.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide shot Peter Kaczynski talking to beekeepers \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide shot beekeepers sitting on crates at meeting \u003cbr/\u003e30. Close up beekeeper wearing safari hat \u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide shot beekeepers at meeting \u003cbr/\u003e32. Close up beekeeper \u003cbr/\u003e33. PowerPoint slide reading: \"State Quarantine Response, Team training.\" \u003cbr/\u003e34. Wide shot beekeepers outside shed \u003cbr/\u003e35. Upsound (English) Peter Kaczynski, Apiary Inspector, Department of Primary Industries: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Australia's not going to be any different, once its gone it's gone.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e36. Wide shot beekeeper training day \u003cbr/\u003e37. Close up bees in container with icing sugar \u003cbr/\u003e38. Close up lid going back on beehive  \u003cbr/\u003eAustralian honey producers are preparing for the onslaught of a parasite that's wiping out hives across the globe.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Asian honeybee is the main carrier of the varroa virus, which has killed around half of European bees in South East Asia, Europe, and the Americas.   \u003cbr/\u003eIn the last two years it has spread to New Zealand, where it's threatening the billion dollar fruit export industry that relies on bees for pollination.   \u003cbr/\u003eAnd beekeepers say it's only a matter of time before the virus arrives in Australia.  \u003cbr/\u003eIt's training day for some of Australia's most experienced beekeepers.  \u003cbr/\u003eA group of 30 apiarists (beekeepers) are being taught how to search for a two millimetre-long parasite called varroa mite, which has wiped out many commercial hives and wild bee populations around the world.   \u003cbr/\u003eThe varroa mites attach themselves to adult bees and feed off their blood, transmitting viruses and bacteria. \u003cbr/\u003eApiary Inspector, Peter Kaczynski, came out of retirement to put together this rapid response unit.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey're now ready to be called on if there is a suspected case anywhere in the State of Victoria.  \u003cbr/\u003eKaczynski says they are training the bee keepers to recognise the signs of infection. \u003cbr/\u003e\"They'll be looking for the field signs of the mite and the mites are quite easy to identify. What we showed them today are the methods we'd like them to use so that everyone's doing the same thing, show them how we can test with insecticide strips and test with sugar shake, another method of identification. And show them what the visual signs of varroa look like.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eThe tiny parasite latches itself onto European bees, weakening and in many cases killing the entire hive.   \u003cbr/\u003eAustralia is now the only major beekeeping country free of it.  \u003cbr/\u003ePeter McDonald an apiarist (bee keeper) says that European bees were infected by their Asian cousins, but the European bees had no resistance to the infection. \u003cbr/\u003eThe humble bee is worth more than $4 billion Australia dollars (about 3.7 billion US dollars) to Australian agriculture, pollinating everything from avocados to almonds, according to the Australian government. \u003cbr/\u003eFour-fifths of Australia's food crops rely on pollination, but because there are so many wild bees, agriculture hasn't had to pay for it.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Australian Government has also placed sentinel hives at major container ports to check for mites and quarantine dogs have been trained to detect bees.  \u003cbr/\u003eAustralian beekeepers are taking the threat very seriously, volunteering to be part of rapid response teams across the country, so something can be done to quarantine the mite before it spreads.     \u003cbr/\u003eKaczynski says that he fears that eventually the parasitic mite will infect Australian hives, adding that it recently \u003cbr/\u003ewas discovered in New Zealand. \u003cbr/\u003eMcDonald says an outbreak in Australia would devastate agriculture as bees are needed to pollinate many plants. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the United States a survey of bee health released in May 2008 revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year.\u003cbr/\u003eLast year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent.   \u003cbr/\u003eThe deaths of bees are attributed to several factors including new diseases,pesticide drift and the parasitic varroa mite. \u003cbr/\u003eThe survey included 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