More than 15m bees destroyed in NSW to contain deadly varroa mite parasite

Hives along state's central and mid-north coasts and in north-west destroyed as bee lockdown continues

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More than 15 million bees have been euthanised across 31 infected premises in New South Wales as the fight to contain the varroa mite continues.

Bees from 1,533 hives have been destroyed between the NSW central and mid-north coasts, as well as at Narrabri in the state's north-west, the state's agriculture minister, Dugald Saunders, said. It's a significant number of bees," he said.

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