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I've just spent the last 3 hrs searching for information about dried Santolina species and their ability to repel moths, especially the greater and lessor wax moth and their larvae.
I've also looked for information about the possible toxicity of dried Santolina species on bees.
Good info is hard to find. There is info saying Santolina species repel silverfish and clothes moths but everyone copies everyone and there is little science behind it.
I'm wondering if I can use dried Santolina species inside my weak beehives, to help them resist wax moth.
Has anyone seen what I'm looking for or perhaps done the research themselves? Or has anyone seen another plant I could grow and use for this purpose?
Failing that, is anyone interested to take on this as a research project?
Dear Jacob Simons
I know only these sources of literature
- International Plant Names Index. 2017. Santolina. Published online. Accessed Dic. 01 2017.
- The Plant List 2013. Santolina in The Plant List Version 1.1.
- Tropicos.org 2017. Santolina. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Hassler, M. 2017. Santolina. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life.
Regards, Sergey
Pushkin, did you read the whole question? Your answer was not helpful at all.
Burkhard Scharf Seriously, what help was that? It was totally irrelevant. Did you read the whole question? Did you read my response to the last person who gave me an irrelevant answer?
If you ask me, you only answered to game Research Gate points. It is something I will report you for.
I'm a nurseryman. I know very well what the name is. I'm asking for very specific information. I made it very plain in my question what I was looking for. Your answer was worse than useless. It made me hope that somewhere, someone had found something useful.
From my limited (6 years) beekeeping experience in a Mediterranean cliamte area wax moth infestation is a symptom of a weak colony, rather than a problem in itself. So I would look at other underlying causes (how is your varroa?). To control early infestation and give more time for bees to recover I have used Bacillus Thuringensis to kill wax moth larvae (not toxic on bees, I was using the same kind as for cabbage moth). Larvae prefers old wax, so renovating frames helps. You could also try to combine two weak colonies into a stronger one. I can not say much more without knowing your context, beehives are dynamic systems so it is not as straightforward as repelling moths from clothes.
Javier Montellano Lopez No varroa in our country yet. My hives are all removals from plasterboard walls in houses or swarms from unknown sources. Some of the swarms are very small so yes often they are weak. I'm learning that with these, I'm better to pinch the queen and then add the bees to another small hive.
Thanks for the info about BT That was VERY useful. Did you figure that for yourself or find the info somewhere?
The information I gave you was from my own experience, but during my beekeeping period I often consulted:
https://www.honeybeesuite.com/
http://scientificbeekeeping.com/
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