Pest Control Reporting

Chalk­brood test­ing in bee hives with pre­lim­i­nary of (Gal­ben C 46%, Radomil gold pluse WP 42.5% and Daconil 2787) at their rec­om­mended rates. They did not exert any effect on the mycel­i­cal growth of the fun­gus. Out­doors (api­ary) stud­ies revealed that cedar oil 4% gave 100% reduc­tion in mum­mies num­bers. Reduc­tions in num­ber of fallen mum­mies ranged from 63.22 to 96.94, 18.93 to 81.74, and 10.11 to 68.16%, on […]

MONOTERPENOIDS ARE THE prin­ci­pal com­po­nents of essen­tial oils and pro­vide the essence of many higher plants includ­ing mint, pine, cedar, cit­rus, and euca­lyp­tus. They are the defense plants use to repell and kill pathogens, and insects.
This project stud­ies the use of sev­eral mon­ter­penoids includ­ing a-Terpineol, which is a com­po­nent of cedars, against Oligony­chus unun­guis (spruce spi­der mite), Tetrany­chus urli­cae (twospot­ted spi­der mite), and the Acara­pis woodi (tra­cheal mite). The test­ing showed that all of the essences killed, repelled, reduced repro­duc­tion and hatch­ing rates, charts are included for further […]

Use of pyrethroids, and organo-phosphates are demon­strat­ing sub-lethal effects on repro­duc­tive casts (Rindiner et al 1999) and resis­tance to the pes­ti­cide by the mites. The pur­pose of these exper­i­ments is to deter­mine the effect on honey bee mite pop­u­la­tions when exposed to West­ern juniper wood or West­ern juniper chips. The effects of West­ern juniper on bees on showed at this point no harm to the bees and a decline in Varroa […]