Microscopic mite will bug bees

By Monica Heary
May 22 2013 - 7:00am
Bee-cause: Honey bees such as these are in danger. Below, Ivan McMillan tends some of colony at Sutherland. Pictures: James Alcock
Bee-cause: Honey bees such as these are in danger. Below, Ivan McMillan tends some of colony at Sutherland. Pictures: James Alcock
Below, Ivan McMillan tends some of colony at Sutherland. PIcture: James Alcock
Below, Ivan McMillan tends some of colony at Sutherland. PIcture: James Alcock

PUMPKINS, squash, zucchini, apples and pears are among the foods whose production could be endangered once the varroa mite arrived in Australia, a bee expert predicted.

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