Oral administration in individual honey bees: modification of the Rinderer technique

PORRINI M; GARRIDO,M; EGUARAS M

JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

INT BEE RESEARCH ASSOC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2013 vol. 52

0021-8839

Currently, inoculation with substances or infective microorganisms of individual honey bees involves many technical problems, such as long time periods of handling and a tedious manipulation of the bee to achieve the ingestion of the inoculum. Also, many operators are needed in order to simultaneously obtain large numbers of inoculated individuals. Our aim was to replace glass materials to achieve easier handling. Also, we propose different steps in the work sequence in order to speed the technique and reduce the number of operators required to produce large numbers of inoculated worker bees