One of the country's largest honey producers has warned there could be an explosion in cane toad numbers in the NSW Northern Rivers following recent record floods.The non-native amphibians also love bees and tap on the hives to lure them outThe pest is invading hives on damaged sites across the region in search of the destructive small hive beetle, which poses a massive threat to bee colonies.
"If we leave them in the bush, they become just havens or breeding areas for small hive beetle," Mr Fuller said."With the ground being so wet, small hive beetle is staying in the box and now cane toads are moving in the box to eat the small hive beetle. The ugly amphibians' appetite for bees started becoming a problem when the fires, and now floods, killed their usual prey.
"There's not much else you can do, because a lot of these [in forests], we can't put poisons down in case people come through with animals," Mr Fuller said. "We've been lodged since the second or third week; I only know of two beekeepers who have been helped.
If thats an an attraction to cane toads then catch to kill traps might be useful
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