Method and system for protecting honey bees from fipronil pesticides
A method and system for the treatment of honey bees ( Apis mellifera ), bats, and butterflies protects them from various life threatening conditions, including Colony Collapse Disorder, white nose syndrome, etc. and in particular, provides honey bees, bats and butterflies with the ability to assimilate and degrade pesticides such as neonicotinoids and fipronil.
1. A method for providing a honey bee with the ability to assimilate fipronil pesticides, comprising, inoculating a honey bee with a culture of fipronil degrading bacteria, wherein the fipronil degrading bacteria comprises at least one of, Paracoccus denitrificans , and Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila.
2. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the culture comprises a fipronil degrading bacteria comprising Paracoccus denitrificans.
3. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the culture comprises a fipronil degrading bacteria that comprises Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila.
4. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the culture comprises a fipronil degrading bacteria that comprises both of Paracoccus denitrificans and Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila.
5. A method for providing a honey bee with the ability to assimilate fipronil pesticides, comprising, inoculating a honey bee with a culture of pesticide degrading bacteria, wherein the pesticide comprises fipronil, and said culture comprises Paracoccus denitrificans.
6. The method as set forth in claim 5 , wherein the culture further comprises one of Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila , and Bacillus thuringiensis.
7. The method as set forth in claim 5 , wherein the culture further comprises Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila.
8. A method for providing a honey bee with the ability to assimilate fipronil pesticides, comprising, inoculating the gut of a honey bee with microbes possessing the ability to degrade fipronil pesticides, said microbes comprising Paracoccus denitrificans and Bacillus thuringiensis.
9. The method as set forth in claim 8 , wherein said microbes further comprises Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila and Bacillus thuringiensis.