Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7506 – Exposure of diseased, infested or infected bees or equipment; notice
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(a) No person in this State shall expose any diseased, mite infestation, exotic mite or Africanized honey bee, or any infected or infested hives, equipment or appliances so that flying bees may have access to them.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7506
- Apiary: means any place where one or more colonies of honey bees are kept. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- Appliances: means any apparatus, tools, machine, or other device used in the handling of bees, honey, wax and hives, and includes smokers, veils, gloves, hive tools, extractors, as well as any container of bees, honey or wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- Bees: means any stage of development of the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, or of any other bee species being transported into Delaware for any purpose. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- Exotic mite: means Tropilaelaps clarae, Varroa jacobsoni, Varroa rindereri, Varroa sinhai, Varroa wongsirii, or other non-endemic species. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- Mite: means Acarapis woodi, Varroa destructor. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- Mite infestation: means the parasite or pathogen will threaten the colony health if action is not taken. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Any person keeping bees in the State shall notify the State Apiarist immediately of the existence or the suspected existence of any bee disease, mite infestation, exotic mite or Africanized honey bee in such person’s own or any other apiary in the State.
46 Del. Laws, c. 111, § ?5; 3 Del. C. 1953, § ?7506; 65 Del. Laws, c. 366, § ?5; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 82 Del. Laws, c. 181, § 1;