One thing that works cooperatively, almost like life within a hive: The Senasa coordinates with beekeepers a network of

With around 4 million hives spread across all latitudes, Argentina is a leader in honey production and is positioned as the second largest exporter and the third most important producer in the world. The flip side of this productive work lies in health care. Ideally, the logic of "prevention rather than cure" should prevail, especially since there are certain pests already widespread in the region that have posed a latent risk to the country for years. One of them, perhaps the most representative, is the small hive beetle (SHB), which for years has represented an epidemiological risk for Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay and has prompted active work from the surveillance network coordinated by Senasa. The SHB, Aethina tumida, raised the first alarms in 2016, when the country declared a health alert to prevent this insect from crossing borders and entering our hives, which would jeopardize the 75,000 tons of honey produced annually. To this end, around 150 apiaries, located from Chubut ...