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US 12,582,721 B2Granted
Molybdenum-based feed supplement for bees
AssigneesUniversite De Versailles Quentin-En-Yvelines, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Institutul De Zoologie, Universitatea De Stat Din Moldova
InventorsArcadie Fuior, Sébastien Floquet, Valentina Cebotari, Diana Cebotari, Aurelian Gulea, Ion Toderas
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Abstract
Food supplements for bees that include molybdenum complexes and a method of administering the food supplements to the bees for preventing the infestation of bees and their larvae by the Varroa destructor mite. Also, the use of the food supplements to increase the production of honey and lower the winter mortality of bees.
Claims8
A food supplement for bees, comprising a molybdenum complex of the following formula II(i):
- A2m-[Mo2O4]-Ln II(i)
- wherein:
- A2 is a cation selected from Li+ or Na+,
- L is a ligand selected from amino acids such as glycine (gly-), cysteine (L-cys2−) or histidine (L-his−) or polycarboxylate ligands such as oxalate (Ox2−), citrate (Cit3−), ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA4−), nitrilotriacetate (HNTA2−), and iminodiacetate (IDA2−),
- m is the number of cations and is selected from 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, and
- n is the number of ligands and is selected from 1 and 2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.