METHOD OF TREATING BEE COLONIES AFFECTED BY ASSOCIATIVE INFECTION WITH VARROOSIS, AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FOULBROOD Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01K51/00 

FIELD: beekeeping.

SUBSTANCE: method includes establishing a diagnosis, removing a queen bee from a sick colony in May–June, breeding a new young queen bee by bees, mating her with drones, laying fertilized eggs after 30 days, followed by acaricidal treatment against varroa mites with an aqueous suspension of Bipina twice with an interval of 24 hours at a dose of 10 ml per a beeway, transplanting into a new clean hive on artificial foundation and feeding the bees sugar syrup with a functional additive. Simultaneously with acaricidal treatment, bee colonies are treated 3 times with an interval of 7 days against American and European foulbrood by spraying with oxytetracycline hydrochloride at a dose of 0.05 g per frame of bees at the rate of 10–15 cm³ per frame of bees in the main hive amount of warm water or based on 1 liter of warm water 25 g of the drug, followed by fumigation of bee colonies with Varomor in the evening 4 times with an interval of 3 days with a medicinal composition containing Bipin and purified kerosene, taken at a ratio of 1:20. To increase immunity, a mixture containing pine extract, succinic acid, polyethylene glycol and water is used as a functional additive, which is fed after treatment with drugs at intervals of 5 days for 30 days based on a bee colony of not more than 10 ml per 1 kg of sugar syrup.

EFFECT: invention provides complex treatment of varroosis, American and European foulbrood.

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