Device for combating the varroa mite in a bee brood

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PATENT NO 9999204
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14987933

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The invention relates to a device for combating the varroa mite in a bee brood, comprising at least one middle wall that can be inserted in particular into a beehive and that is provided with brood cells for female bees, the device having an electrical heating device that has a resistance heating element embedded in the middle wall and a control device connected to the latter which is designed such that an automatically running heating process can be initiated with a temporally pre-determined heat-up phase that lasts until a temperature of 39° C. to 45° C., preferably 39° C. to 42° C., is reached at the bottom of the brood cells in the region of the resistance heating element and then with a subsequent phase of maintaining this temperature for a predetermined period of time.

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  • VATOREX AG

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Brunner, Willi Wiesendangen, CH 3 4

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