GO Varroaform. Desarrollo de una formulación eficaz para el control y prevención de la varroatosis en abeja domestica (Apis melifera).

GO Varroaform. Development of an effective formulation for the control and prevention of varroatosis in domestic bees (Apis melifera).

Type Grupo operativo
Status Filled
Execution 2019 -2021
Assigned Budget 379.920,3 €
Scope Supraautonómico
Autonomous community Canarias; Castilla - La Mancha; Galicia
Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
Project website https://www.plataformatierra.es/innovacion/grupo-operativo-varroaform

Description

Development and obtaining of an alternative formulation to conventional pesticides from time-controlled release formulations based on natural products with anti-varroa activity.

Objectives

Evaluation of efficacy and possible toxicity in bees.
Reduction or total absence of residues in natural honey and other products derived from the hive.
Reduce the costs for beekeepers and producers of current treatments against Varroa.

Results

Obtaining and characterizing pharmacotechnical methods of various alternative formulations to conventional treatments, non-toxic to bees and effective under real conditions of use, tested in experimental apiaries.
Field efficacy evaluation carried out through controlled trials, assessing concentration and dosage of active substances, time of application, temperature and evaporation pressure of the substances, among other aspects.
The paste turned out to be, in general, the formulation with the best results and with a greater acaricidal effect, comparable to conventional treatments.
Detection and initial quantification of residues in natural honey and other hive-derived products and obtaining anti-varroa formulations that do not generate such residues.
Final economic evaluation of the total cost of applying the product in apiaries, resulting in the prices of the experimental formulations developed in this work being cheaper than those already marketed.

Contact information

feuga@feuga.es

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