1316 results about "Honey bee" patented technology

Compositions and methods for reducing susceptibility to infectious disease in bees using RNA interference technology, and more particularly, prevention and treatment of viral infections in honeybees such as Israel acute paralysis virus (IAPV) by feeding of pathogen-specific dsRNA. Further, multiple-pathogen specific dsRNA is disclosed.

The invention discloses a conveniently cleaned Chinese bee hive which comprises a bottom box. A box cover is arranged on the upper portion of the bottom box, more than two honeycombs are arranged in the bottom box, the space in the bottom box is divided into two symmetric breeding chambers by a first vertical queen excluder, a drawable bearing plate is arranged on a bottom plate of the bottom box, a baffle plate is vertically fixed at a draw-out end of the bearing plate, honeycomb doors are arranged on two sides of the baffle plate respectively, and the baffle plate is hermetically fastened with the front end face of the bottom box when the bearing plate is not drawn out of the bottom box. By the aid of the drawable bearing plate arranged on the bottom plate of the bottom box, broken combs, wax-moth larvae and impurities in the bottom box can be conveniently cleaned and arranged, and the inside of the box is kept clean and neat. Besides, a partition plate and/or a second vertical queen excluder are arranged on two sides of the inside of the bottom box respectively, and a honey storage area and a breeding area are respectively meticulously managed. Honey is collected from the honeycombs in the honey storage area without opening the breeding area, so that larvae and bee pupae cannot be injured.

The invention relates to a method for planting strawberry. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) cultivating strong seedlings generally at the end of March to the beginning of April; (2) measuring soil, applying a fertilizer, deeply turning the soil, leveling the soil, and mixing uniformly; (3) finely making ridges, and absorbing water till saturation; (4) performing cultivation and detoxification on the strawberry seedlings; (5) performing transplantation generally at the end of August to the beginning of September; (6) spreading weeping pipes in October, covering a mulching film and a greenhouse film, and controlling the temperature of a greenhouse to be between 25 and 28 DEG C at the budding stage, between 24 and 26 DEG C at the flowering and fruiting stage and not less than 5 DEG C at night; (7) reasonably performing topdressing, and introducing bees at the beginning of flowers to pollinate; (8) fermenting rice chaff in the soil, and preventing and controlling diseases and insect pests; and (9) picking when 80 to 90 percent of strawberry fruits are red. The strawberry planting method is reasonable and scientific, has remarkable prevention effect on strawberry cultivation, and can increase the yield of the strawberry.

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.

An apparatus for providing solitary bees for pollination, comprising a bee nest and a portable on-site incubator. The bee nest can comprise a plurality of corrugated sheets, each sheet comprising a plurality of flutes. When the sheets are stacked together, the flutes form cavities arranged in a tessellating pattern. The portable incubator can comprise a chamber for holding dormant adult bees, an opening providing access to the chamber, a passage for exiting of bees from the chamber, means for heating the chamber, means for controlling chamber temperature, and a power supply. Dormant adult bees placed in the incubator are stimulated into activity and leave the incubator. Female bees that leave later lay eggs in the bee nest.

The invention relates to new isolated Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains which have been isolated from fresh honey having a water content above 18% by weight or from the honey producing tract of at least one bee. The bacterial strains have unique properties rendering them useful in many products such as in food and beverage products, feed products and medica products.

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 discloses a bee attractant and a method for field seed production and pollination of soybean hybrids. The method comprises the following steps of: selecting a field which is suitable for the growth of soybeans, duly sowing the soybean hybrids, and intercropping male parents and female parents across ridges; selecting a required amount of healthy pollination swarm within 5 to 7 days before pollination, and transporting into the field of the soybeans at the early flowering stage of the soybeans; feeding attractant syrup within 1 hour before the bee attractant is sprayed everyday or every other day in the seed production field of the soybean hybrids which just blossom; spraying the bee attractant on leaves of hybrid soybean plants of the male parents and the female parents in 1 to 5 ridges of field across 1 to 5 ridges of field every 1 to 3 days so as to ensure that bees are attracted into the field and fall down to the leaves of the hybrid soybean plants to eat the syrup; spraying the attractant on two sides of stalks of the hybrid soybean plants to attract the bees to fall down to hybrid soybeans to collect so as to pollinate the hybrid soybeans; and stopping spraying the bee attractant in rainy days, and restoring the spray when the weather gets better so as to maintain the attractant which can meet the requirements in the field. The attractant is obtained by mixing a honeycomb liquid, a flower aroma imitation liquid and syrup in a proportion and diluting by using quantitative cold boiled water.

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 invention discloses bee feed and a preparation method thereof. The bee feed comprises raw materials in parts by weight as follows: 50-60 parts of bee pollen, 30-40 parts of maltose, 1-3 parts of yeast tablets, 3-5 parts of vitamin tablets, 3-4 parts of motherwort herb powder, 7-10 parts of bean flour, 5-8 parts of a Chinese herbal medicine additive and 5-6 parts of water. The bee feed contains no pigment and has high nutrient ingredients, the cost is low, bees grow quickly, side effects of ordinary additives are avoided due to adoption of the Chinese herbal medicine additive, the feed can be absorbed by the bees more easily, honey is more sweet and delicious, and the preparation method is simple and convenient to operate.

The invention provides a kind of bee-collected natural traditional Chinese medicine honey and its preparation; the traditional Chinese medicine materials with homology of medicine and food and with no bee rejection are chosen to produce into water extract with 3-6 times amount of water; after filtering deposit, the filter liquid is mixed with honey in proportion of 1:0.5-2 by weight; the mixed liquid is concentrated until the medicine concentration reaches to 2-20%, then used to feed bees; after food intake, honey is collected, purified and produced into natural traditional Chinese medicine honey. The invention is produced under the action of biological enzyme of bees; the beneficial components are 10-30 times higher than that of common honey; the invention has remarkable treatment and healthcare function, such as insomnia treatment; because of the invigoration and detoxification function of honey, the product not only remains the original treatment and healthcare function of medicine in honey, but also has sweet taste and no toxic side effect; the invention is suitable for all ages, especially for children.

The invention relates to a nourishment fodder for honey bees, which comprises soybean flour 100 parts, yeast powder 50-70 parts, tryptone 5-15 parts, bee honey 70-90 parts, water 30-50 parts, white sugar 10-30 parts, whole milk powder 3-5 parts, composite vitamin 1-3 parts and lypressin 0.5-1.5 parts.

The invention relates to a biological prevention and control technology, in particular to a scleroderma guani breeding method which solves the problem that the scleroderma guani breeding in large quantities is limited due to limited alternative host source of the present scleroderma guani. The scleroderma guani breeding method includes the following steps: a. the scleroderma guani and an alternative host are purchased for storage, and the alternative host is an osmia panzer; b. the osmia panzer is bred into a mature larva or a pupa; c. the mature larva or the pupa of the osmia panzer is bred into the scleroderma guani, so as to lead the scleroderma guani to carry out eclosion to form the adult scleroderma guani or the pupa. In the invention, the alternative hosts namely the osmia panzer and a male bee of the scleroderma guani are obtained through a large number of tests; the osmia panzer and the male bee are utilized to breed the scleroderma guani, which solves the problem that the scleroderma guani breeding in large quantities is limited due to limited alternative host source of the present scleroderma guani; meanwhile, the breeding method of the osmia panzer is provided, which can realize batch breeding of the osmia panzer, thereby obtaining a great quantity of alternative hosts on the basis of saving the cost and breeding a great quantity of adult scleroderma guani.

The invention belongs to the technical field of beekeeping and particularly relates to a culture method for Chinese honeybees. The culture method for the Chinese honeybees comprises the steps: S1. providing beehives; S2. carrying out hiving; S3. carrying out propagation period management; S4. carrying out bee colony queen breeding; S5. carrying out swarming; S6. carrying out bee colony merging; S7. carrying out honey-getting; S8. enabling bee colonies to live through summer and winter; S9. feeding the bee colonies and preventing bee theft; S10. carrying out disease and insect pest control on the Chinese honeybees; S11. disinfecting beekeeping equipment; S12. preventing and treating chaos bee clusters; and S13. preventing and treating swarming fever. According to the method, the provided beehives facilitate bee colony observation, swarming and merging and can help the bee colonies to safely live through summer, absconding is reduced, the beehives are warm in winter and cool in summer, the bee colonies have no need of migration, and feeding can be carried out at fixed points; the yield and quality of honey can be improved; and the culture method disclosed by the invention can be used for solving the difficult problems in a Chinese honeybee culture process that the colony population is small and the quantity of plant diseases and insect pests is large.

A nest for solitary bees may be fashioned from a rectangular solid of either a solid matrix or a number of nest elements. Each side of the nest contains a multiplicity of apertures, where each aperture provides a nesting cavity for the bees. Each aperture has an open end and a closed end. If fashioned from individual nest elements, the orientation of the apertures may be adjusted as desired, such that each element may be stacked upon an adjacent element in one of four orientations, so that the cavities of one element may be at 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° relative to an adjacent element. If desired, the aperture density of each side may be adjusted as desired. The configuration of the nesting cavities of the present invention reduces congestion at nest entrances and provides shelter to the bees from predators and the environment.

A bee house for housing a plurality of bee hives includes a generally rectangular frame and four upwardly extending opaque fixed walls fixed to the frame and a gable roof having a generally triangular cross-section. The roof has a peak and a pair of eaves or outer edges below its peak and defines a longitudinally extending opening between a pair of roof panels at or along the peak. The bee house also includes a plurality of shelves for holding three bee hives on each shelf and an air-conditioner for maintaining the bee house at a temperature of between about 25° C. and 35 C.

A permanent full year inner cover having a transparent base and a central channel for improved ventilation and with ventilation ports that can be used as an additional entrance. A modification of the central channel to allow for an exteriorly controlled bee escape mechanism. An additional enclosure over the central channel to allow for the feeding of sugar syrup. The safety feature of the capabilities to observe, monitor, and feed bees without the removal of the inner cover and the necessity of protective clothing.