Composition for prophylaxis and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites

FIELD: agriculture, in particular prophylaxis and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites.

SUBSTANCE: claimed composition contains (mass %): formic acid 76-91; and gel-forming polymer (e.g. polyacryl and potassium polyacrylate) 4-10; and additionally it contains lactic acid 1-14 and balance: essence oil.

EFFECT: enhanced assortment of preparations for controlling of parasitic mites and treatment of fungal and bacterial diseases in bees.

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The invention relates to compositions for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites, in particular from ticks, varroa jacobsoni and acarapis.

The invention can be used to kill wax moth and controlling fungal and bacterial diseases of bees, as well as for disinfection of hives.

Now for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites are different compounds as active substances which are mainly used pyrethroids, formamide, essential oils, organic acids and other active ingredients (Coffins OF Ticks: parasites of bees and pests of their products. M: Agropromizdat, 1987, - s. Recommendations on the use of drugs when the varroa bee. Minsk: Belnap APK. - 1991. - 18 S. pancakes A.V. Finding new environmentally friendly means of dealing with carpinetum bees. Abstract of Diss. CVN - M: VIEWSHE. - 2001. - P.12-14. Soloviev, L. F. Formic acid in beekeeping. // Collection of scientific research on beekeeping. Fish: NIIP. - 2000. - P. 166-184. Soloviev, L. F. treat bees against varroa must annually. // Proceedings of the 2nd international scientific-practical conference "intermyod-2001". - Fish.: NIIP. - 2001. S-106. Ignatiev GI, Melnikov V.N., Shlykov B.A., Murawski A.I. Tactics against varroa bee. / Bee-keeping, No. 1. - M.: Kolos. - 2004. - P.32-34).

The disadvantage of these drugs and formulations is that many years, their use in the apiary leads to massive resistance to ticks.

In addition, currently created drugs must meet the basic requirements for security, robustness, low cost and efficiency of their application. Thus, the development of new drugs and methods of their use at the present time is an important task and has important economic value.

Known composition to protect honey bees from parasitic mites (the description of the patent No. 2222189 Russian Federation), containing (wt.%) formic acid - 90-99 and a copolymer of polyacrylamide with a potassium polyacrylate - 1-10. This composition is an effective drug to protect honey bees from parasitic mites that do not affect the quality of bee products. However, the use of this drug, as most of these drugs, more than 3-5 years leads to the resistance of ticks.

Known compositions for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites the closest to the technical nature of the claimed composition is a gel composition with delayed allocation, habitat bee colonies, the active substance containing active substances is - essential oil or formic, acetic or oxalic acid (PCT/WO 97/47193, application No. 99100378/13). In this invention uses a gel in the form of strips of the gel, the gel granules, tablets or gel tray dispenser, filled out the above form.

It is known that the gel is a thixotropic colloidal system, therefore, during storage, transportation and temperature fluctuation can not keep the form of granules, tablets and strips. This leads to a drastic reduction in the possibility of using the above gel-like composition in the application. Furthermore, the description of this invention does not contain enough information, which could satisfy the requirement of implementation of this invention.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a composition for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites, providing a larger Arsenal of drugs used to combat parasitic mites and controlling fungal and bacterial diseases of bees.

This problem is solved due to the fact that the composition containing formic acid and a gelling polymer, is introduced lactic acid and essential oil.

The task according to the invention is also solved by quantitative ratio contained in the composition of the components.

The proposed structure contains these components presleduyumie ratio (wt.%):

As the essential oil composition contains fir, and/or mint, and/or sage, and/or camphor oil.

In addition to formic and lactic acids, gelling polymer and essential oil are pumped in a given percentage of (in % by weight) in kislotonepronitsaemost shell of non-woven material. These shells are placed in the consumer packaging, such as cans of polypropylene with caps of the control opening. Then these banks metered volume method formic 83-87% concentration and lactic preferably 15-20% acid concentration and close the lid of the control opening.

In the patent and scientific literature is not well-known technical task likewise declare, that allows to make a conclusion about the relevance of the proposed composition condition of patentability criterion of "novelty".

Application components in a certain ratio poses the s to achieve the same effect specified in the invention, and provides a more effective therapeutic action against parasitic acaridae, fungal and bacterial diseases of bees. This is due to the synergistic effects included components that seemingly follows from the properties of the proposed structure in terms of application, i.e. the inventive composition for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites and other diseases satisfies the condition of patentability "inventive step".

Safety and environmental safety of use of components used for formic and lactic acids are natural compounds and are contained in a small amount of honey, which are components of essential oils are perfectly safe for humans, bees and bee products, as well as ease of use in terms of application of the composition and providing technical result allows to conclude that the composition meets the condition of patentability "industrial applicability", and the proposed composition suitable for use in specialized beekeeping farms and private farms.

The above correlation used components substantiated experimentally. The main options proposed composition at what can be found in table 1-4.

Change the content of gelling polymer is less than 4% does not provide the necessary structure of the gel, i.e. the acid used may be in a liquid state, and in the increase of its content in excess of 10% is not necessary, since the content of gelling polymer to 10% provides reliable geleobrazovanie,e stable under conditions of storage, transportation and use (compositions No. 1-5, 7-11, table 1-4). The content of lactic acid from 1 to 14% and formic acid from 76 to 91%, as well as essential oils from 0.5 to 6% it is possible to achieve the necessary efficiency in terms of use.

Tests acaricidal activity of the compounds No. 1-5, 7-11 (PL. No. 1-4) were performed twice with an interval of 20 to 22 days at a temperature of 10-12°in late November and early December, when families no brood. The effectiveness of the two treatments were achieved 99.9 percent. It is established that the application of 30 g of the proposed structure on the family force 8-10 streets not toxic to bees and not toxic to the dams. Late autumn handling bees, it is advantageous that the beekeepers at this time, less loaded, and the control of ticks in families without brood is the most radical.

In the proposed composition of the essential oil can be used in the form of a mixture. This allows the effectiveness of the actions more than the use of each essential oil alone (composition No. 12, table 1-4).

1. Composition for the prevention and treatment of honey bees from parasitic mites containing formic acid and gel-forming polymer, characterized in that it additionally contains lactic acid and essential oil in the following ratio, wt.%:

2. The composition according to claim 1, characterized in that the quality of the essential oil composition contains fir, and/or mint, and/or sage, and/or camphor oil.