Fecha de publicación:
23/12/2010
Fuente: WIPO "apiculture"
A composition for feeding honeybees in a treatment procedure to prevent their falling ill in CCD traceable in the presence of different pathogens with the effect of continuously maintaining the operation of their immune system characterized by being kneaded of a beebread artificially produced through anaerobic fermentation by lactobacilli of pollen and/or a mixture of pollens gathered from insect pollinated plants and carried into hives by bees then mixed into drinking water and sterilized by a food industrial procedure also destroying spores of Penibacillus larvae subspecies with an addition of beet sugar powder and further drinking water, if any, to have a consistency of hard bread dough within which the artificially produced beebread is in a series whose value is between previously given ranges in a proportion of 20 to 80 % by mass and the drinking water in a proportion of 4 to 20 % by mass, and each pollen has protein content which is in itself at least 15 % by mass on dry matter basis. The fodder composition also has an expressly anti-nosema effect and a composition of increased effect can also be produced for this purpose.