Essential Oils as Potential Control Agents Against Varroa Mite Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman in Comparison with Chemical Substance on Honeybee Colonies Headed by Hybrid Local Egyptian Queens | ||||
Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology | ||||
Article 3, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008, Page 9-14 PDF (243.07 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original research articles | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ajesa.2008.4972 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
M. Hassan1; Margaret Rizk2; Sally Allam3; A. Zaki2 | ||||
1Department of Zoology and Agricultural Nematology, Fac. of Agric., Cairo Univ. | ||||
2Plant Protection Research Institute, Agric. Res. Center, Min. of Agric | ||||
3Department of Zoology and Agricultural Nematology, Fac. of Agric., Cairo Univ | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The efficacy of essential oils i.e. geranium oil, lemon oil, mint oil, chamomile oil and black cumin oil, used alone or in mixtures, compared with a chemical insecticide, mitac, against Varroa mite was evaluated. The infestation levels of these substances were evaluated in honeybee colonies during October, November and December 2005 in Giza Governorate. Cotton strips, saturated with the tested substances, were hanged between the middle combs in all treatments. The efficacy rate of geranium oil, lemon oil, mixture of (geranium, lemon, chamomile and mint oils) and mixture of (lemon, black cumin and mint oils), in comparison with mitac was 37.27%, 32.56%, 37.59%, 36.27% and 53.64% respectively. This study indicates that using mixture of essential oils was more suitable with cotton strips in controlling Varroa mite. Genetic improvement by using hybrid queens between Apis mellifera carnica (drones) and Apis mellifera lamerkii (virgins), proved to be an effective and reliable method for the control of Varroa destructor. Cultural control by lemon oil or added to sugar solution was used in feeding the colonies, especially in winter. Putting the colonies in citrus garden and cultivation of geranium or chamomile around apiaries (these new cultural control) were added to IPM programmes for control Varroa mite. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Varroa destructor; control; Essential oils; mitac; cultural control; genetic improvement; Apis; mellifera lamerkii | ||||
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