Zitavex Foundation

Author: Charles Berg

  • TREATING VARROA IN HONEYBEES

    TREATING VARROA IN HONEYBEES

    Natural, chemical and drug free, the following is a guide to making your own free treatment to combat the parasitic invader “Varroa Destructor.”

     

    With seven known types of honeybees, only a few have a natural resistance to the parasitic invader Varroa Destructor. This resistance is known as “hygienic response.” Gentle honeybees, like the European bee do not possess this hygienic response naturally and are fooled into seeing these invaders as another bee through the pheromones and smells they produce. Zitavex Foundation has researched these natural behaviors and has discovered a way to allow the bees themselves to repel these parasites.

     

    HOW TO PREPARE A 1 GALLON MIXTURE

     

    Using a new or clean sprayer that has the ability to make a very fine mist is ideal.  A sprayer with an electrical blower and smoke size droplets is preferred.  The hope is to cover every single bee and living space inside the beehive. Remove openings and spray between supers and brood boxes as thoroughly as possible.

     

    MIX

    ½ Gallon of honey, local if possible

    ½ Gallon of clean water

    1 tablespoon lemon grass oil

     

    SPRAY

    In the early morning or dusk to ensure as many bees are in the hive as possible. Use between 1 to 2 pints on each hive.  Watch to make sure the mist and droplets come out of all openings. It is better to use too much than not enough.

     

    Allow 24 to 48 hours for the bees to clean each other and the hive. Repeat this process as often as necessary; the bees love the free honey!

    To download or view all the latest research in Anti-Varroa treatments, diseases and future plans download “anti-varroa treatment” under our PUBLIC INFORMATION tab at the bottom of this page.

     

    For further research, questions and our future plans using honey for medicine, burns, bleeding control and healthy living, please help us change the world by donating at:

     

    WWW.ZITAVEX.ORG

  • HONEYBEE “IN SERVICE TO SCIENCE”

    HONEYBEE “IN SERVICE TO SCIENCE”

    Zitavex Foundation takes pride in its lifesaving medical honey patents used to treat burns, injuries and stop bleeding but did you know that scientists rely on the honeybee for so much more.

     

    DETECTING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS

    The ATF uses trained bees to detect airborne chemicals faster and more reliably than laboratory air sampling.  With the ability to sense more odors than a bloodhound, bees rely on odor to navigate their way from flowers to find acceptable nectar and pollen. Trained with just a few feedings, the chemical to be detected is wafted through the air and the bees are simultaneously feed honey. After just a few of these training sessions, the bees are ready to go to work. Packaged and shipped to the field, 5 bees are placed in a harness and if 3 or more stick their tongues out, that means they have detected the chemical in question. From lab to field, the bees can be trained and use faster than the long process of sampling, storing, shipping and testing the air sample in question.

     

    THE BEE HIVE IS LIKE A MAMMAL

    Just like mammals, the bee colony regulates its temperature to keep warm. Bees also have some of the most complex brains in the animal kingdom.  Able to see magnetic lines of force, ultra violet and infrared light, bees keep a huge map of the surrounding area in their brains.  When arriving back at the hive, the worker bee does a waggle dance so accurate that scientist now understand their meanings (direction and distance).

     

    BEES USE NATURAL ANTIBIOTICS FROM PLANTS

    Like little medical experts, bees gather and manipulate plant and tree sap to make a product called “Propolis.” This sticky, glue like substance is used to seal all entrances to the hive.  During damp and cold months when all the bees huddle together for warmth, the Propolis coating also prevents the growing of mold and prevents the spreading of bacterial infections.

     

    A STORIED HISTORY

    Gathered for as long as history has been written, honey is a prized and cherished discovery when luck and patience allow. Used to preserve food, treat cut and burns and used in all kinds of medicine for millennia, nothing grows in honey. Found in clay jars, honey over 5000 years old is as edible as the day it was harvested.  When sealed, or allowed to crystallize, honey keeps out oxygen and resists mixing with water, which allows crystallization and natural preservation properties.

  • ROBOTIC BEES (a bad idea)

    ROBOTIC BEES (a bad idea)

    Are we ready for a world without bees, without pollinators or insects? Why does it matter? If the insects and pollinators disappear, so to do the flowers.  Yes, robotic bees, machines and human hands can ensure that our apples and cherries get pollinated, but what about everything else.

    It is our mission at Zitavex foundation to encourage all continued efforts to save not just honeybees but all insects and pollinators by encouraging a robust medical market for the honey they make, but also for the wild plants and flowers that will disappear without them. What kind of effort does it take to make swarm, armies of robotic bees? Let’s get behind the right future, one where our pollination comes naturally and free.

    Robotic BeeOver 70 people scoured Mt. Ashland for a Franklin’s bumble bee as part of the annual Bee Blitz. It was the biggest turnout in the history of the survey, which has taken place in July for over a decade.

    After over a decade of searching, researchers don’t know if Franklin’s bumble bee will ever be seen again. Last week, over 70 people searched Mt. Ashland for a specimen as part of the annual Bee Blitz. It was the biggest turnout in the history of the survey, which has taken place in July for over a decade.

    Before Franklin’s bumble bee disappeared from the landscape in 2006, it could only be found in five counties between Southwest Oregon and Northern California, which makes it one of the most range-restricted bumblebees in the world. The bee was listed as an endangered species in 2021.

    Jeff Everett, the lead biologist for Franklin’s bumble bee and the organizer of the event, said that finding just one specimen of the species would be a major milestone for research and conservation.

    “If we can locate Franklin’s on the landscape, we can not only bring more meaningful conservation tools to bear to protect and recover the species, but we can also learn more about why it was here and take some of those lessons and apply them to other at-risk pollinators,” Everett said.

     

  • Science of Medical Honey

    Science of Medical Honey

    Medical Honey? For thousands of years, Honey has been harvested, eaten and used in medicine food preservation. Today some of the most seriously infected wounds and burns are treated using honey, when other more expensive medications fail. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recognizes this inherent biocidal property in honey as an anaerobic carbohydrate that nothing can live in or on its surface. Honey requires no refrigeration and keeps on the shelf forever. The American Plastic surgery advisory board describes honey as “one of the more effective means of controlling topical diseases and healing wounds.”

    Medical HoneyHoney was traditionally used to fight infection up until around the early 20th century. Around this time, honey was forgotten and predominantly replaced with penicillin, but is now regaining its former popularity as the world continues to become more conscious to the dangers of pharmaceutical drug use (which now kill more individuals per year than traffic accidents. Of course, it was the excess usage of pharmaceutical drugs that have in many cases spawned the resistant strains in the first place, and the same antibiotics that have now been linked to health conditions ranging from mental illness to metabolic syndrome.

    Honey Science and Research

    Through the benefit of U.S. patent #10,201,163 B1 “Honey based biocide”; U.S. patent pending #14/798229 “Biocidal composition”; U.S. patent #62/102,929 “Honeybee Hygienic response”; this company and its primary participants have been actively involved in the pursuit of a more natural and chemical free approach to healing and the prevention of the spread of disease through the support and understanding of the honeybee as a pollinator and creator of naturally occurring cures with Honey, Propolis, Pollen and Royal Jelly. We are very dedicated to the safety and preservation of the honeybee and of indigenous pollinators. Much of our work is coordinated through university programs involving the study of Apiary science and Varroa mite eradication. The scientific discoveries made and granted through these patents verify many of the medical discoveries found in the use of Honey as a powerful healing agent and its antimicrobial properties taking it to the next level. Through rapid supersaturation and crystallization of these carbohydrate crystals, the honey powder is then paired with base earth salts to create positive and negatively charged Piezoelectric crystals known as “biocidal Piezoelectric crystals.” Through a patented process of bonding base crystal salts with the dry acidic honey crystals, the two components store together as a potential reactive charge, released when introduced to water or a biologic source. This is because the action held within the electrostatic crystals makes them PH neutral, hygroscopic as well as biocidal.