Honeybees

Mambo-Tox can offer laboratory, semi-field and field trials with the honeybee, Apis mellifera. We utilise the services of a highly-experienced professional beekeeper to prepare hives of uniform strength and quality for our studies, and to advise on treatment-related side-effects. The types of projects we can undertake are:

• Laboratory studies (oral and topical exposure) to derive LD50 values. These can be carried out between May and late-August each year and testing is carried out to the current EPPO or OECD guidelines.
  
  
• Semi-field studies in which nucleus hives are caged over large plots within a flowering crop.
  
  
• Honeybee brood studies to evaluate effects on the juvenile life stages within the hive itself. This is particularly appropriate for evaluating Insect Growth Regulators.
  
  
• Field trials with full-sized hives.