Current through Register No. 12, March 21, 2024
(a)
When, during the course of colony inspections, a regulated disease or parasite
is found in an apiary, the inspector conducting the inspection shall:
(1) Declare the honeybees and the equipment
contaminated by the regulated diseases or parasites to be a danger for
spreading these pests, and order the isolation of affected colonies until the
diagnosis is confirmed by an approved laboratory; and
(2) Provide the beekeeper of the affected
apiary with an inspection report stating the suspected diagnosis and the manner
in which the diseased or infested colonies or combs have been marked.
(b) Upon official confirmation of
the diagnosis, the inspector shall:
(1)
Provide a copy of the confirmation to the beekeeper;
(2) Serve notice to the beekeeper ordering
abatement of the regulated pest within 10 days; and
(3) The notice shall be served:
a. Personally or by mail to the last known
address of the beekeeper; or
b. By
posting it in a conspicuous place in the apiary when the beekeeper is not
known.
(c)
The beekeeper shall, at the request of the inspector, provide the location of
every apiary the beekeeper owns or operates in New Hampshire.
(d) The inspector, after informing the
director of the division of plant industry, shall, at the beekeeper's expense,
abate the disease, mites, or Africanized honeybees immediately after expiration
of the time specified in the notice, if:
(1)
The beekeeper of an apiary in which the regulated pests are found to exist
cannot be located after contacting adjoining landowners, city or town clerk or
police and/or fire department; or
(2) Notice has been served pursuant to these
rules, and the beekeeper refuses or neglects to abate the regulated pests
within the time specified in the notice.
(e) For abatement of AFB, the inspector, or
the beekeeper under the supervision of the inspector, shall:
(1) Burn the diseased honeybees and
contaminated equipment with city or town approval as follows:
a. The diseased colonies of honeybees shall
be exterminated with an insecticide that meets the rules and requirements of
the pesticide control board and the New Hampshire department of agriculture,
markets and food, division of pesticide control, pursuant to
RSA
430:28-430:50. The components of the
contaminated hive, such as brood chamber, supers, frames, inner cover, outer
cover, bottom board, and wooden rimmed queen excluder, together with any bees
and diseased comb found in the apiary, shall be burned in a burn barrel, a pit
not less than 18 inches deep, or in some other manner approved by the local
fire department, and the ashes shall be covered with at least 6 inches of soil;
or
b. The diseased colonies of
honeybees shall be exterminated pursuant to
Agr
1805.02(e)(1)a., and the contaminated
hive components, including dead bees, shall be placed in sealable containers
and incinerated at an approved incineration facility; or
(2) Abate the diseased honeybees and
contaminated equipment following recommendations by the inspector, who shall
reinspect the colony or colonies after 10 days. If AFB is still present in the
colony or colonies, the honeybees and the contaminated equipment shall be
destroyed pursuant to
Agr
1805.02(e)(1).
(f) For abatement of Tropilaelaps
clarae mites, the inspector, or the beekeeper under the supervision of
the inspector, shall abate the infested honeybees and equipment following
recommendations by the inspector.
(g) For abatement of Africanized honeybees,
Apis mellifera scutellata, the apiary shall be condemned, and
the inspector, or the beekeeper under the supervision of the inspector, shall:
(1) Exterminate, pursuant to
Agr
1805.02(e)(1)a. , colonies of
Africanized honeybees exhibiting levels of aggression deemed by the inspector
to be a danger to the general public ;
(2) Abate colonies of Africanized honeybees
not exhibiting aggression as in (1) above following recommendations by the
inspector; or
(3) Abate colonies of
Africanized honeybees not exhibiting aggression as in (1) above by the
following:
a. The Africanized queens shall be
destroyed;
b. The colonies shall be
requeened with non-Africanized honeybee queens;
c. The first generation of adult offspring
shall be resampled; and
d. If the
resampled offspring are determined to be Africanized honeybees, the colony
shall be exterminated pursuant to
Agr
1805.02(e)(1)a.
(See Revision Note at chapter heading for Agr 1800) #5802,
eff 3-25-94, EXPIRED: 3-25-00
New. #7284, eff 5-24-00, EXPIRED:
5-24-08
New. #10586, eff
5-13-14
