A Varroa mite emergency eradication zone has been declared at Cuttabri just days after the parasite was detected in Tamworth.
Cuttabri (red zone) is one of three new locations where Varroa has been detected, as well as Blackwall (purple zone) in the Central Coast and at Vineyard in the Glenorie (red zone) surveillance emergency zone.
The new detections take the total number of infested premises to 250, and one of the few detections that have come close to the Western Plains…