Trial #9119 – BeeVIGOR Marine
Screening trial to test the dose response in honey bee brood, bees and stores. Co-operator Arataki Honey Ltd.
Number of hives: 22 hives.
Location: Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
Treatments: BeeVIGOR Marine used at 1, 2 & 4ml per litre of sugar syrup. Arataki Standard treatment of 10ml Vita Bee per litre, plus 5kg Mega Bee per 500L tank of sugar syrup. Untreated control. 1 to 2 to 5 litres of each mixture per hive progressively from 27 August through 7 November 2019.
Number of treatments: Five at 14-15 day intervals.
Note: A separate hive was feed BeeVIGOR Marine at 16ml per litre of sugar syrup (4 x the maximum treatment dose) to confirm the acceptability to honey bees and lack of any apparent toxicity.
Results:
BeeVIGOR Marine alone at 4ml per litre of sugar syrup produced 77% of the brood and 84% of the bees that were produced by the Arataki Standard treatment, whilst lower doses of BeeVIGOR Marine were less effective. All doses of BeeVIGOR Marine were as productive as the Arataki Standard for honey stores.
No adverse effects were recorded at 16ml per litre of sugar syrup.
BeeVIGOR Marine was easy to use.