TY  - JOUR
T1  - Using Medicinal Plants for Controlling <I>Varroa</I> Mite in Honey Bee Colonies
AU - , Abdol-Ahad Shaddel-Telli AU - , Naser Maheri-Sis AU - , Abolfazl Aghajanzadeh-Golshani AU - , Abolfazl Asadi-Dizaji AU - , Hosein Cheragi AU - , Mozhgan Mousavi 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SP  - 328
EP  - 330
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2008.328.330
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2008.328.330
KW  - Honey bee
KW  -varroa
KW  -tobacco
KW  -harmel
KW  -thymus
AB  - <I>Varroa</I> is one of the most dangerous honey bee parasites, which has caused serious damages to the bee industry. By now, various herbal and chemical drugs hard been used. In this research, the effect of 7 treatments including tobacco extract, harmel ext, thymus ext, tobacco smoke, harmel smoke and thymus smoke and also one control group each with three replicate in a completely randomized design (CRD) have been examined on 21 colonies. The whole period of experiment was five days. The rate of hive contamination at the beginning and end of the experiment along with daily rate of <I>varroa</I> and worker bee contamination were recorded. There was no significant difference between experimental hives at the beginning of the study. However, significant dissimilarity was found between experimental treatments at the end of period (p&lt;0.05). Considering the rate of the mortality of <I>varroa</I>s in different days and the whole period of the study, a significant different was observed (p&lt;0.05) and tobacco ext. had the largest effect on the <I>varroa</I> control. Besides, significant dissimilarities in the mortality of the bees were found in various days nad considering this aspect, harmel ext had the highest effect.
ER  -