Title: Ozone Testing on Honey Bee Equipment
1Ozone Testing on Honey Bee Equipment
- By
- Elmer James
- Martin James
- Karla James Shelton
- Of
- Slide Ridge Honey
- Mendon, Utah
- June 9, 2008
2Assisted by
- O3 Company, Aberdeen, Idaho
- USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Beltsville
- Utah Dept. of Agriculture, Salt Lake City
- USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research Unit, Logan,
Utah - Ozone Research Equipment, Akron, Ohio
3Lab Facilities
- Small Test Chamber at Ozone Research Equipment in
Akron, Ohio - Lab Testing at USDA-ARS Beltsville Bee Lab in
Beltsville, Maryland. - Lab Testing at Utah Dept of Agriculture in Salt
Lake City, Utah - Lab Assistance from USDA-ARS Bee Lab in Logan,
Utah.
4Full Scale Field Testing
- Ozone room constructed at Slide Ridge Honey in
Mendon, Utah - Size 20 ft. X 15 ft. X 10 ft.
- Large ozone generator unit 2050-088, double
chamber type manufactured by O3 company in
Aberdeen, Idaho. - Monitor with range 0 to 2000 PPM provided by O3
company.
5Ozone Room
6Ozone Room Sealed
7Ozone Generator
8Ozone Generator Inside
9Ozone Monitor
10Ozone Test Start up Number 1
11Ozone Test Start up Number 2
12Ozone Test Start up Number 3
13Ozone Test Start up Number 4
14Ozone Test Run Number 2
15Ozone Test Run Number 3
16Ozone Test Run Number 4
17Part of Ozone Test Run Number 4 (USU Data Logger)
18Ozone Test Run Number 5
19Ozone Test Run Number 5 (USU Data Logger Record)
20Observations
- Pesticides residue destroyed.
- Herbicides residue destroyed.
- Wax moth destroyed, inactive remains.
- Gasoline residue destroyed on outer surface
during run 5 on a customers Hives. - Comb readily accepted by Honey Bees.
- Dry Rot fungus may be stopped.
21Observations Cont.
- Foundation purchased several years ago was never
acceptable to our Honey Bees. Now that this
foundation has been submitted to Ozone they seem
to readily move on to it and start building comb.
22Items not Subdued
- FOULBROOD
- More testing required with different techniques.
23State of Utah Lab Tests
- 2008-8 Control Sample of Beeswax Pollen with no
Pesticides applied after Ozone treatment. - 2008-9 Beeswax Pollen with Fluvalinate applied
and then treated with Ozone. - 2008-10 Beeswax Pollen with Amitraz applied and
then treated with Ozone.
24State of Utah Sample 2008-8
25State of Utah Sample 2008-9
26State of Utah Sample 2008-10
27Wax Moth Damage
- Comb with severe wax moth damage has never been
acceptable to our Honey Bees, therefore these
frames were disposed of in our operation. - Same severe damaged comb, Ozone treated, is very
acceptable, the bees move right on to it and
starting cleaning out the cells for reuse. Refuse
dumped on bottom board by the bees, tip hive and
scrap out.
28Typical Wax Moth Damage
29Typical Damaged Frame After Ozone Treatment
30Drying out Equipment
- The Ozone process seems to dry out all of the
equipment, boxes, frames, comb, pallets, etc. - O3 CO theorizes that dry air input as the
carrier for the Ozone gas is absorbing the
moisture from the equipment.
31Room Pressure Exhaust With Charcoal Filter
32Air Circulation In Ozone Room, NO Rubber or
Urethane Belts
33Air Circulation in Ozone Room Requires Direct
Drive Blower
34Coding of Equipment Processed Through Ozone
35Coded Hive Box Frames
36Restack Hive Boxes to Allow Better Air Circulation
37Locate Ozone Sensor Near Top of Equipment Being
Processed
38Depressurize ducting, route outside of building
39Cost
- Ozone generator 3,000.00 per month lease.
- Electric power 194.94.
- Frames processed 8,880.
- Labor 0.00.
- Cost per brood frame 0.36 each.
- Not included, improvement to boxes, pallets,
lids, etc.
40End Result of Ozone Treated Equipment. (30 Day
Nuc)
41Honey Bee Care
- Bees shown in slides have been treated for Mites,
Nosema, Foulbrood, and Chalkbrood. - Their diet has been supplemented with Bee-Pro
other additives.
42Conclusions by Slide Ridge Honey
- All Dead Out Hives should be processed in an
Ozone Chamber before attempting to raise Honey
Bees in them. - We consider placing Honey Bees in unprocessed
Dead Out Hives, a waste of time and money.
43Conclusions Continued
- Why does Ozone Treatment Work?
- This was the first full scale Ozone Test under
field conditions, and we know a number of items
that are being destroyed, however we may have
wiped out other detrimental elements that need to
be known and requires further Lab Research.
44Comments
- We wish to acknowledge the USU Bee Lab and their
staff for coming up with the idea of using Ozone
to purify Bee Hives, and now that we have proven
that the idea is economically feasible by Bee
Keepers at the commercial level, we encourage USU
Bee Lab to enlarge this research program at the
earliest opportunity.
45Comments Continued
- We believe that with Ozone Processing and proper
nutrition, CCD may disappear from the Bee Keeping
operation. - We believe that our two biggest problems in bee
keeping are pesticides/herbicides being returned
to the hive poor honey bee nutrition.
46Factor
- We need for the Lab to establish a factor that
relates - Time in Ozone chamber to PPM of Ozone
- This would allow us to cut cost on power
consumption and/or equipment size. - We are also of the opinion that the Logan Bee Lab
is in the best position to conduct this Research.
47Distribution
- USDA-ARS Bee Lab
- 5310 Old Main Hill
- Room 253
- Logan, Utah 84322-5310
- Dr. Rosalind James
- Craig Huntzinger
- Ellen Klinger
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- State of Utah
- Dept. of Agriculture Food
- 350 N. Redwood Road
- Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-6500
- Danielle Downey
- Dr. David Clark
48Distribution Cont.
- Beltsville Bee Lab
- Room 211
- 10300 Baltimore AV.
- Building 476 BARC-East
- Beltsville, MD 20705
- Bart Smith
- Jeffery Pettis
- O3 Manufacturing
- 2775 West 1800 South
- Aberdeen, Idaho 83210
- Lynn Johnson
- 208-397-3033
- 208-220-1288 cell
49Distribution Cont.
- Ozone Research Equipment Company
- 221 Beaver Street
- Akron, Ohio 44304
- Ron Brainard
- 800-742-8535
- Bee Keepers
- Newswander Brothers Honey
- Pendell Apiaries
- Homan McMaster Apiaries
- Mike Brockman
50Distribution Cont.
- Suppliers
- Mann Lake Ltd.
- Stuart Volby
- 501 1st. St. South
- Hackensack, MN
- 800-880-7694
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