Product for treatment of bee families and process for its application

Fecha de publicación: 28/05/2014
Fuente: WIPO "apiculture"
Invention refer to a product dozed for a single application on a bee family, and to a process for its application. The product consist of a package, with a volume between 10 and 40 cm 3 , formed by thermosealing from a hydrosoluble film, which contain fructo-oligosaccharides, corn starch, polyvinyl alcohol, lecithin, glycerol, magnesium stearate, water, on which are introduced 8...32 g of a hydrophobic composition, done from sunflower oil, thymol / thyme oil, or mint oil, lemongrass oil, thyme oil, and additives, maltol and lecithin.. The process of application involve to make in the same time a spraying on the bee hive body, with the emulsion formed from the product acting predominantly by evaporation, and a spraying on the bee frames and on the bees, with the emulsion which stimulate the bees, diluted in a ratio 1:1 with bee feeding syrup, or concomitant application, by spraying on the bee hives of the emulsion acting by evaporation, and of a substitute feeding, with bee feeding syrup on which was diluted, in a ratio 1:20, the emulsion which stimulate the bees.