Endemic Honey Bee Diseases and Pests in Western Australia Certified list current as of July 2013 [Key: DAFWA Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia] – The honey bees were successfully introduced to WA in 1841 via Mr F Helpman RN [Enquirer, Wednesday 15 September 1841; Peter Barratt (1999),The (Apis mellifera) Immigrant Bees 1788 to 1898 Volume II, Peter Barratt publishing] though there is some speculation that William Hardey of Peninsula Farm beside the Swan River, 5 km east of Perth had a hive of bees in 1830 [Chambers SR, (1979) The Honey Bee, Agriculture in Western Australia 1829 1979, Editor: EH Burvill, p 248]. – Disease/pest Date Notes Notifier Reference Established Nosema Prior to June produces dysentery John A Ayre The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 92. Vol. 1 (6). “Dampness (Nosema apis) 1894 which lowers vitality of the surviving Apiary bees...keep your bees warm and dry” Lesser wax moth March 1897 plague”. The first official record. Richard Helms The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 1183. Vol. IV (6). “New (Achroia grisella) Galleria sp introduction date noted (Govt biologist) to be back” “sometime Greater wax moth Prior to 1897 Quindalup district. of bee A Crawford Journal of the Dept of Agric. of WA, p 81. Vol. 3 (1901). “Ravages (Galleria mellonella) (see above) moth are just as bad as can be” American Foulbrood Prior to May in the opinion of this conference WA Horticultural The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 1278. Vol. IV. “That (Paenibacillus larvae) 1897 stringent measures should be at once Society (AFB) by the government to stamp out foul brood in bees” Dec 1899 has spread so widely over Journal of the Dept of Agric. of WA, Vol. 1 (1899-1900). “Disease WA and within the last 2 years made such a havoc amongst bees in several locations to destroy whole apiaries”
Endemic Honey Bee Diseases and Pests in Western Australia Certified list current as of July 2013 [Key: DAFWA – Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia] The honey bees (Apis mellifera) were successfully introduced to WA in 1841 via Mr F Helpman RN [Enquirer, Wednesday 15 September 1841; Peter Barratt (1999),The Immigrant Bees 1788 to 1898 Volume II, Peter Barratt publishing] though there is some speculation that William Hardey of Peninsula Farm beside the Swan River, 5 km east of Perth had a hive of bees in 1830 [Chambers SR, (1979) The Honey Bee, Agriculture in Western Australia 1829 – 1979, Editor: EH Burvill, p 248]. Disease/pest Date Established Notes Notifier Reference Nosema (Nosema apis) Prior to June 1894 “Dampness produces dysentery which lowers vitality of the surviving John A Ayre Apiary The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 92. Vol. 1 (6). bees...keep your bees warm and dry” Lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella) March 1897 “New plague”. The first official record. Galleria sp introduction date noted Richard Helms (Govt biologist) The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 1183. Vol. IV (6). to be “sometime back” Greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) Prior to 1897 (see above) Quindalup district. “Ravages of bee moth are just as bad as can be” A Crawford Journal of the Dept of Agric. of WA, p 81. Vol. 3 (1901). American Foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae) Prior to May 1897 “That in the opinion of this conference stringent measures should be at once WA Horticultural Society The Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, p 1278. Vol. IV. (AFB) by the government to stamp out foul brood in bees” Dec 1899 “Disease has spread so widely over WA and within the last 2 years made such a havoc amongst bees in several Journal of the Dept of Agric. of WA, Vol. 1 (1899-1900). locations to destroy whole apiaries”