376results about "Apiculture" patented technology

This application provides and discloses anti-parasitic, anti-pest or insecticidal nucleic acid molecules and their calmodulin target genes for the control of arthropod parasites and pests. This application further provides methods and compositions for the control and treatment of parasites and pests in Apis mellifera (honey bee) hives.

The invention is directed to water-dispersible, substantially homogeneous artificial diets and diet formulations which provide honey bees with a fully nutritious, complex mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins in an easily digestible form. The diets of the invention support growth and development of honey bees, sustain brood rearing, and maintain hive vigor, and thus make possible the continuous rearing of bees using an artificial diet. The invention diets are useful for many purposes, and are particularly advantageous for providing nutrition sources for bees that are moved during commercial crop pollination or for other migratory beekeeping uses.

As described below, the present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling a honey bee parasitic mite. In addition, the invention features compositions useful for the treatment or prevention of a parasitic mite infestation in a honey bee hive.

The invention provides controlled release compositions for treatment of parasitic mites in honeybees, the compositions composed of a covalently crosslinked polymer gel and an active agent that includes a salt of formic acid. The invention also provides methods for controlling parasitic mites in honeybees, the methods involving treating the honeybees with a controlled release composition composed a covalently crosslinked polymer gel and an active agent that includes a salt of formic acid. The invention further provides a kit for treatment of parasitic mites in honeybees, the kit including an envelope that contains a controlled release composition of the invention. Optionally, the active agent can include formic acid.

The present invention is based on a plurality of benefits from the extracts of mycelia of individual fungal species, and mixtures of species, to provide an armamentarium of defenses from multiple stressors in order to help bees survive a complex of symptoms collectively called colony collapse disorder (CCD). More particularly, the present invention utilizes specific concentrations of extracts from pure cultured mycelium from mushroom forming fungi to reduce harmful viruses in bees and to increase the longevity of bees.

The invention discloses a method for breeding vespa velutina auraria smith, comprising the following steps: taking wild vespids at the end of the autumn to manually manage and feed to help the wild vespids to live through the winter; and manually helping the wild vespids to build a hive in group in the spring of the second year and moving the hive to recycle. The method is characterized in that a swarm of vespa velutina auraria smith in a pairing season are moved to a sealed pairing chamber to feed; after the swarm of vespa velutina auraria smith are paired for 3 to 5 minutes, a bamboo stick stained with water-based paints is utilized to spot in time; the spotted fertilized female vespids are gathered to manually care so as to live through the winter; back vespids which survive from the winter are moved one by one into a vespid cylinder to feed and manage in the second year so that the vespids build the hive, spawn and care children of the vespids in the vespid cylinder; and the hive is moved to a natural field to breed when the number of the worker vespids reach to 14-15. The method for breeding vespa velutina auraria smith can not only solve the provenance problem to set an example of manually breeding the vespa velutina auraria smith and excellently breed and culture the vespa velutina auraria smith, but also can greatly improve the expansion speed of hive groups and save costs of manufacture, baits, labors, and the like of hives, thereby being suitable for breeding the vespids in a large scale. The method has low cost, fast expansion of a swarm and good effect.

The invention discloses a method for attracting tea geometrid moth and suede cocoon bee, comprising: separating and identifying ten kinds of volatile matter from the volatile matter in the tea damaged by the tea geometrid moth and from the camellia scent by applying method of top fluidizing adsorption; choosing components with strong attracting active for the tea geometrid moth and suede cocoon bee through the behavior detecting and physiological research of the insect antenna electricity; preparing scent source matter with active components; preparing the attracting agent according to a certain proportion; choosing colors with strong attracting effect to the tea geometrid moth and suede cocoon bee by the attracting experiment in the tea area and producing color ball. Suspending the attracting chip injected with attracting agent in the color ball and preparing for attracting device, putting which in the field to attract the tea geometrid moth and suede cocoon bee, which can deduce the use of chemical pesticide. The invention is characterized by the following aspects: attracting the suede cocoon bee in the small environment in a short time, which uses the parasitic wasp with a high efficiency to control the tea geometrid moth, deducing the chemical protection; free of pollution which is helpful for the high effective ecological tea development; and the simple utilization and low cost.

A portable vapor bee smoker including a housing, a reservoir carried by the housing, vapor fluid containing liquid smoke carried by the reservoir, a vapor generator carried by the housing and coupled to the reservoir for receiving the vapor fluid, and a heat source carried by the housing for heating the vapor generator for turning the vapor fluid into a vapor.

The invention provides a box used for bee mating. The box comprises a box body provided with a hive entrance, a box cover, a queen excluder, a hive frame and a feeder, wherein the queen excluder, the hive frame and the feeder are arranged inside the box body, the volume of the box body is smaller than the volume of a bee box used for bee cultivation. A method for establishing a bee queen-rearing colony is suitable for the box used for bee mating with the volume smaller than that of the bee box. The method comprises the steps of dividing a bee colony into a plurality of mating colonies according to the principle that the number of bees is matched with the volume of the box used for bee mating, and placing the mating colonies into a plurality of boxes used for bee mating respectively. According to the box used for bee mating and the method for establishing the bee queen-rearing colony, the number of bees in the mating colonies can be reduced appropriately on the premise that mating and oviposition of a queen bee are guaranteed, so that the number of bees in the mating colonies adapts to the internal space of each box body, and then more mating colonies can be formed, more queen bees can be cultivated, the number of bees can be increased fast, and economic effectiveness can be improved for a bee keeper.

This small hive beetle trap is constructed using common corrugated cardboard method using natural pheromones and a glue substance that's environmentally safe to the applicator, honeybees and natural pollinators. There are no chemical residues transferred to the honey or beeswax. This small hive beetle trap does not add any extraneous construction to the standard beehive. The trap is placed inside the hive around the perimeter of the foundations. Traps can be used all year long.

A new protective device for use against biting of mosquitoes and other arthropods and in particular, a material which can be used in the manufacture of regular clothing or specialty clothing to protect an individual from bites from mosquitoes and other arthropods.

Pesticide strips used to control parasitic mites in honeybees. The pesticide strips are designed to have a lifetime or period of existence, after which the strip no longer exists in its original form. The strip breaks down, such as by disintegration, dissolving, decomposition, being eaten or carrier away, or otherwise degrading over time, so that at the end of the recommended lifetime, the strip is no longer in its original form. In most embodiments, at least 50% of the strip is no longer present, and in other embodiments at least 75% of the strip is no longer present. Preferably, at the end of the recommended lifetime, the strip no longer exists, at least the body of the strip that included the active ingredient. With this design, the strip does not provide extended low-dose pesticide that can be detrimental in treating the mites.

The invention discloses an apis cerana queen breeding method and belongs to bee queen breeding methods. By means of the apis cerana queen breeding method, a bred queen can be large in size, strong, meek in temperament and high in egg production capacity. Bowl-shaped queen cells made of bee wax are fixed to a honeycomb frame, and a queen breeding frame is obtained; the queen breeding frame is put in a queen breeding apis cerana swarm, and worker bees are made to clean the queen cells; the inner walls of the queen cells are brushed with fresh bee milk, eggs of other apis cerana swarms are implanted into the queen cells, and the queen breeding frame is coated with apis mellifera honey in a dipping mode and then put back to the queen breeding apis cerana swarm; the queen breeding frame is taken out and put into an apis mellifera swarm for nursing for 12 hours, then the queen breeding frame is taken out and put back to the queen breeding apis cerana swarm again for breeding for 5-7 days, and a mature queen embryo is obtained; a virgin queen can be hatched on the 9th or 10th day. The queen bred through the method is large in size, strong, high in disease resistance and high in egg production capacity, the bee swarm is meek in temperament, and the bee robbing or honey stealing phenomenon can be avoided even bee swarms are away by 10 cm, and the apis cerana queen breeding method is used for breeding apis cerana.

The invention relates to a comb honey production box, in particular to a Chinese bee comb honey double-queen production box. The invention provides the Chinese bee comb honey double-queen production box which comprises a comb frame provided with a hollow cavity, wherein a separator plate is arranged in the comb frame, the hollow cavity of the comb frame is separated by the separator plate into a first cavity and a second cavity for containing two queen bees respectively, and combs are respectively arranged in the first cavity and the second cavity. The Chinese bee comb honey double-queen production box has the beneficial effects that the hollow cavity of the comb frame is separated by the separator plate into the first cavity and the second cavity for containing the two queen bees respectively for forming double-queen colonies, in such a way, the colonies are conveniently joined after queen bees are lost, and the colonies are conveniently separated when two queen bees exist, so that stability in the colonies is favorably maintained, the working intensity of peasant households is lowered, and the efficiency of observing the bee colony is favorably improved.

The invention concerns a composition for the treatment of varroa mite infestations in honeybee colonies, comprising a base layer and an active layer, wherein the active layer comprises an effective amount of an acaricidal compound.

The invention discloses a method for improving the productivity of Apis cerana cerana by organizing strong colonies through a mode of putting three queen bees in the same beehive. The method for improving the productivity of the Apis cerana cerana by organizing the strong colonies through the mode of putting the three queen bees in the same beehive is characterized in that the three queen bees are put into the same beehive and isolated through queen excluders, but colonies are not isolated, and one of the queen bees is prevented from oviposition alternately and is in a state of rest; then the three queen bees have a rest alternately and regularly and achieve oviposition alternately to achieve the optimum state of oviposition and the highest honey yield. According to the method for improving the productivity of the Apis cerana cerana by organizing the strong colonies through the mode of putting the three queen bees in the same beehive, the aim that 17 combs of the strong colonies can obtain a high yield of 90-12kg per strong colony per year can be maintained through the simplest method and the lowest cost. The method for improving the productivity of the Apis cerana cerana by organizing the strong colonies through the mode of putting the three queen bees in the same beehive is very ideal in effect, needs little investment and becomes effective very quickly.

A grafting manipulator comprises a grafting needle, a mounting block and a detector, wherein both the grafting needle and the detector are mounted on the mounting block, the detector is used for recognizing bee larva eggs, the grafting needle is used for grabbing and laying off bee larvae, and the grafting needle and the detector are mounted by the mounting block to connect the grafting needle andthe detector with automation equipment. By the aid of an arc-shaped flexible grafting flexure strip, bee larva excavating efficiency can be improved, the survival rate of bee larvae is increased, a certain angle is formed between the detector and a detector connector, so that a certain angle is formed between emitted detection light in detection and the honeycomb wall of a honeycomb, the bee larva eggs are more conveniently detected by the detector, and detection accuracy is improved.

The invention discloses an improved frame type bee feeder, which is: (1) base on the existing frame feeder with multiple grooves for feeding bees with pollen feed, the edge of the groove at the bottomof each groove has an upward edge,the contact between the pollen feed contained in each groove and air is blocked along the edge, and the evaporation of water in the pollen feed is effectively prevented, so that the pollen feed can keep the wet state for a long time.(2) according to the invention, the feeder is additionally provided with a water tank and a honey groove, so that the feeder can simultaneously feed pollen feed, water and honey.

A bee feeder system includes a bee house having a plurality of levels. One of the levels includes a bee feeder having a frame with a top major surface and a bottom major surface. The frame surrounds a central opening and a feeder pipe extends across the central opening. The feeder pipe has a distal section that extends along a longitudinal axis and that includes feeder holes formed therein. A divider covers the central opening for separating the top major surface of the frame from the bottom major surface of the frame. The feeder pipe has a proximal section that extends outside the frame. A feed container is attached to the proximal section of the feeder pipe for supplying feed to the distal section of the feeder pipe. The feeder pipe is rotatable relative to the frame for moving between an ON position in which the feeder holes face toward the bottom major face of the frame and an OFF position in which the feeder holes face toward the top major face of the frame.

A plasma display panel (PDP) includes front and rear substrates arranged so as to face each other, first and second complementary color films arranged so as to be parallel with the front and rear substrates, barrier ribs for partitioning a plurality of discharge cells at a space between the front and rear substrates, an address electrode formed and extending along one direction so as to correspond to each discharge cell, a phosphor layer formed within the discharge cell, a display electrode, and a dielectric layer covering the display electrode. The first and second complementary color films have colors which have a mutually complementary color relationship. The display electrode corresponds to each discharge cell, and extends in a direction intersecting the direction of the address electrode.

The invention relates to a bee feeder, in particular to an automatic-control bee feeder with an automatic alarm function. The automatic-control bee feeder comprises a shell, a liftable sweet water tank, a sweet water dispenser and an alarm. An opening is formed in the upper portion of the shell, the sweet water tank is arranged in an inner cavity of the shell, and at least one pair of springs is arranged between the bottom of the sweet water tank and the bottom of the inner cavity of the shell; the sweet water dispenser is fixed to the opening in the upper end of the shell and comprises a cap-shaped upper cover and a bottom plate, a drain outlet is formed in the bottom plate, and a valve element is arranged above the drain outlet and is fixedly connected with the bottom of the sweet water tank by a perpendicular valve stem; a floater is arranged in an inner cavity of the sweet water tank, a conductor is arranged on the upper end surface of the floater, and two alarm contacts are arranged at appropriate positions above the floater. The automatic-control bee feeder has the advantages that feeding work can be carried out easily, conveniently and quickly, bees can be prevented from falling into sweet water to be drown, the automatic-control bee feeder further has the automatic alarm function, accordingly, the beekeeping labor intensity can be relieved, and the beekeeping cost can be lowered.

Oxalic acid vaporizer with integral body tube, detachable proximal end air nozzle, and floating heating element is a pest control vaporizer or pesticide vaporizer that is used to protect bees from certain pests, mites, and insects where the pesticide vaporizer expels a vapor that kills harmful pests, mites, and insects but does not harm or affect bees in the colony. Oxalic acid vaporizer with integral body tube, detachable proximal end air nozzle, and floating heating element includes an integral body tube that is without any holes, perforations, punctures, gaps, vents, or discontinuities. Oxalic acid vaporizer with integral body tube, detachable proximal end air nozzle, and floating heating element includes a detachable proximal end air nozzle. Oxalic acid vaporizer with integral body tube, detachable proximal end air nozzle, and floating heating element includes a floating heating element with a floating electrical connection.