Alan Wade Canberra Region Beekeepers There are many honey bee viruses though a number are conspicuously absent from Australia. It is imperative that we keep a host of exotic bee viruses away from our shores, not least the destructive deformed wing virus. Not all bee viruses cause symptomatic disease and some, brought home by foragers visiting flowers in the meadow, are readily shared between flies, butterflies and solitary bees as well as nectar foraging wasps (Johnson, 2012; Cilia et al.,...

We're starting out, and don't quite know what this will look like yet, so I am playing around. Native Bee on Scaevola at the ANBG