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> I'd be curious what kind of sterilization procedure works for bacterial spores that would be feasible here?

Enough fire, presumably

> Burning the hives was more painful when other countries used tools like vaccines, antibiotics and sterilisation - measures prohibited in New Zealand and in some export markets.

This part of the article seems to imply that there are sterilization methods that aren't burning down the entire thing. Which I find a bit doubtful as spores are usually very hard to kill.

Yes, less fire, but still enough fire. You don't have to burn everything, but do need burn any spores on the surfaces.

The whole story seems a tad off given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389997 and that no one could be bothered to find someone to work for ~$5 million to put them through an autoclave.

Irradiation is the other whole hive method I know of. I think it's not as widely approved though.