Dr Eric Mussen, extension apiculturist from the University of California, about where his research has progressed on bee colony health.

A local apiculturist, Stephen Sutiagalo, said Asian bees first appeared in 2003, most probably brought in via machinery and equipment of foreign loggers.

A seven-year-old girl who started to learn beekeeping at the age of four is one of England's youngest apiculturists.