Bee Chinese herbal medicines
We have many kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, which can effectively to bees diseases and friendly to both bees and environment.
SN |
Common disease |
Pathogenic feature |
Main feature | Medicine |
1 |
European foulbrood |
Gram-positive bacterium |
Five-day bees die after seal-capping. Tissue rots and becomes ropy anddark brown, colloidal state and filamentous with fishlike stink |
30g radix isatidis, 15g andrographis paniculata |
2 |
American foulbrood |
Gram-positive bacterium |
“Huazi” two or three-day bees die without odor or with acidic odor |
30g radix isatidis, 15 g andrographis paniculata |
3 | Chalkbrood | Fungal diseases | Larva die in the shape of calcareous |
15g honeysuckle, safflower, coptis, folium isatidis, sophora flavescens respectively, 10g rheum officinale, 10g glycyrrhiza uralensis |
4 |
Chinese Sacbrood Virus |
pathogenic viruses | Larva die after seal-capping |
Hainan Panax notoginseng, radix isatidis, cortex acanthopanacis, honeysuckle, glycyrrhiza uralensis |
5 | Sporozoosis | Bee microsporidia |
Bees die for diarrhea. Midgut is pale and nonelastic. |
Vinegar |
6 | Bee climbing |
①Bee microsporidia ②Bee spirochete ③Proteus mirabilis |
Drumble, abdominal distension, jumping crawl at earlier stage and lack of flight ability at later stage till death. |
10g coptis, scutellaria baicalensis, polygonum cuspidatum respectively |
7 | Varroosis | Bee ectoparasite |
Young bees with mutilated wings and legs crawl by the hive entrance, dead pupas are dragged out by worker bees, dead pupas are covered with white nymphs. |
2% oxalic acid aqueous solution; 15g thyme |
8 | Bee louse | Bee ectoparasite |
Collection ability and fecundity of bee are decreased |
Anise oil |
9 | Diarrhea |
Improper feeding: having eaten immature nectar or there exists mannan in granulated nectar and winter nectar |
Happen in Winter or early Spring, bee abdominal distension, sick bees’ faeces are tawny with putrid odor |
50g cactus |
10 | Constipation |
Collection of foods difficult to digest |
Bees have bulgy abdomens and slow action, stroking abdomen ceaselessly. A few bees tremble and die from climbing out of boxes seeking for water source |
① Place water fountain into honeycombs to supply water ② 1 piece of rhubarb soda |
11 |
Jujube flower disease |
Toxication arising from alkaloids and high potassium ion quantity contained in jujube flower nectar |
Abdominal distension, lack of flight ability, jumping crawl, prostrate convulsion till death |
Licorice water, gingerade, acetic acid; 0.5% brackish water |