In Agr 1800, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

1. (a) "Abate" means to take steps to terminate the development or spread of contamination by bee diseases, parasites, or pests;
2. (b) "Acarapis woodi (Rennie)" means an endoparasitic mite of adult honey bees that lives in the anterior thoracic trachea. This mite is commonly referred to as the "honey bee tracheal mite" or "acarine mite";
3. (c) "Acaricide" means any chemical or biological agent used to control mites;
4. (d) "Africanized honey bee" means honey bees of the subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata;
5. (e) "American foulbrood (AFB)" means the contagious disease of bee larvae caused by Paenibacillus larvae;
6. (f) "Apiary" means a place where one or more colonies of honey bees is kept and includes hives, honey bees, and beekeeping equipment;
7. (g) "Bee disease" means American foulbrood, European foulbrood, nosemosis, sacbrood, bee paralysis, or other diseases or abnormal conditions of egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees;
8. (h) "Bee package" means a quantity of bees, with or without a queen, sold as a package;
9. (i) "Beekeeper" means owner or operator in charge of maintaining the apiary;
10. (j) "Certificate of inspection" means a document issued upon inspection of bees, beekeeping equipment, or both by the department of agriculture, markets, and food, indicating the health conditions of the colony, equipment, or both;
11. (k) "Colony" means the hive and associated equipment, including bees, comb, and honey;
12. (l) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the New Hampshire department of agriculture, markets, and food;
13. (m) "Contaminated" means infected, or liable to carry infection, with a disease or parasite of the honey bee;
14. (n) "Director" means the state entomologist, director of the division of plant industry, New Hampshire department of agriculture, markets, and food;
15. (o) "Equipment" means hives, hive equipment, veils, gloves, or other apparatus, tools, machines, or other devices used in the handling and manipulation of bees;
16. (p) "Hive" means a container that is used as a domicile for bees;
17. (q) "Honey bee" means the species of bee identified as Apis mellifera;
18. (r) "Inspector" means any person who is authorized by the commissioner to enforce this chapter;
19. (s) "Nosema" means Nosema spp., internal parasitic microsporidia, or fungi of honey bees;
20. (t) "Parasite" means the honey bee tracheal or varroa mite or other such pests which live in or on the honey bee and at the expense thereof;
21. (u) "Pest" means “pest” as defined in RSA 430:29, XXV, namely “any plant, insect, rodent, fungi, animal, weed, other forms of plant or animal life, or virus, bacteria, or other microorganism (except viruses, bacteria, or other micro-organisms on or in living man or other living animals) which exists in a place where it is not wanted, or in a quantity not wanted”;

22. (v) "Pesticide" means “pesticide” as defined in RSA 430:29, XXVI, namely

    “(a) Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest; and

23. (b) Any chemical or biological agent, or substance or mixture of substances of such agents, intended to control a pest or for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant”;
24. (w) "Regulated pests" means those diseases and parasites that are required to be abated due to their negative impact on the beekeeping industry;
25. (x) "Robbing" means the foraging of honey by bees, hornets, or wasps from another hive instead of gathering nectar from flowers or other plant sources;
26. (y) "Tropilaelaps spp." means external parasitic mites in the genus Tropilaelaps that parasitize honey bees; and
27. (z) "Varroa mite" means external parasitic mites in the genus Varroa that parasitize honey bees.

Source. (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Agr 1800) #5802, eff 3-25-94, EXPIRED: 3-25-00 New. #7284, eff 5-24-00, EXPIRED: 5-24-08 New. #10586, eff 5-13-14; ss by #13978, eff 5-23-24