Evaluating a Heat Therapeutic Control of the Honey Bee Mite Varroa Destructor

Project Overview

LNE96-066
Project Type: Research and Education
Funds awarded in 1996: $20,000.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/1997
Matching Non-Federal Funds: $1,500.00
Grant Recipient: Honeyhunter Apiaries and Farm
Region: Northeast
State: Vermont
Project Leader:
Jeffrey T. Cunningham
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Honeyhunter Apiaries and Farm

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Commodities

  • Animals: bees

Practices

  • Education and Training: demonstration, display, farmer to farmer, on-farm/ranch research, participatory research
  • Natural Resources/Environment: wildlife
  • Pest Management: biorational pesticides, disease vectors, economic threshold, genetic resistance, integrated pest management, mating disruption, physical control

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