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Apiguard Varroa Treatment

Apiguard is a holistic organic treatment that not only combat varroa, due to its miticidal properties, but offers antimicrobial and virucidal properties too! This means your hive is well protected against other ailments keeping it healthier heading into winter. This is one of the only products on the market that defends against varroa while also providing numerous other hive health benefits.

Apiguard is a sophisticated, patented slow release gel that ensures correct dosage of its active ingredient, thymol. Thymol is a naturally occurring substance derived from the plant thyme.

Apiguard gel comes in 50g ready-to-use aluminium trays (two will treat one standard colony). Apiguard is also available in 3kg tubs.

The 3kg tub treats 30 hives, suitable for bee keepers and those with many colonies, comes with dosage tools to ensure correct and easy dosing.

Apiguard has no harmful effect on the honeybee colony: neither on brood nor on adults. In regulatory terms, the EC maximum residue limit of Apiguard has been classified as “No MRL necessary” because of its

low toxicity and hive residue profile.

Apiguard is extremely easy to use:

• Place the opened tray face upwards in the top of brood frames, preferably centred over the colony.
• After 10 days examine the tray and if it is almost empty, replace with a second tray. If there is product left in the tray after 10 days leave until day 14 and then replace.
• Leave the second tray in position for a further 2-4 weeks and treatment has been completed (duration of treatment therefore lasts 4-6 weeks).

Apiguard works best in temperatures above 15°C. But it is also effective at lower temperatures even though the gel takes longer to evaporate and the gel needs to be left in place for longer.

What is Apiguard?
A: Apiguard is thymol in a slow-release gel used to control varroa mites in honeybee colonies. Apiguard is a
product suitable for use in organic farming.

Apistan and Apiguard are ideal alternative treatments for a good management plan. They have the highest combined varroa combating efficacy.

For more information on Apiguard visit https://www.vita-europe.com/beehealth/products/apiguard/