Description
Apiguard is a slow release gel that ensures correct dosage of its active ingredient, thymol. Thymol is
a naturally occurring substance derived from the plant thyme.
Apiguard gel comes in 50g ready-to-use aluminium trays (two will treat one standard colony).
Once in place, vapour from the Apiguard gel is given off. Unlike some other formulations and raw
crystals, the release from the gel works steadily and does not disturb the bees unnecessarily.
Worker bees climb into the Apiguard tray, remove the gel as a hive-cleaning behaviour and
distribute it throughout the colony. The gel sticks to the bees’ body hairs and, as the bees move
through the hive, particles are left throughout the hive. The worker eventually throws out the gel it
is carrying, but the traces remain until they too are removed later.
Apiguard trials in more than 600 honeybee colonies in 10 countries across Europe, the Middle East
and North America have shown it to be a very effective, easy-to-use treatment. Under normal
conditions it gives an average efficacy of 93%.
