The varroa mite is detected in beehives in another almond orchard at Balranald in southern New South Wales, taking the current outbreak in the Sunraysia and Riverina regions to four properties.
Dr Anderson said the NSW DPI would present data about the latest detections in the Sunraysia and Riverina regions and the results of tracing from the Kempsey outbreak.
"Then the committee will make its own decisions around the ongoing technical feasibility and whether it remains beneficial from a cost perspective to continue to expend funding on an eradication approach or whether that approach should change."It comes at the worst possible time for beekeepers — with tens of thousands of hives in the Sunraysia region for almond pollination set to run out of food for their bees in the next week or so.
"The complication we've got now is that we've got a lot of bees that are in almond farms, so a lot of bees concentrated into small areas to satisfy the need for pollination for almond crops," he said.Peter McDonald says the detection has left beekeepers in a tough situation."So there's quite a whack of bees that are caught up in this now," he said.He said bee keepers and producers were facing a lot of uncertainty.
"We've had some fairly in-depth discussions with the industry, at the national level, and also at the local level in the Riverina and Sunraysia," he said.
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