21st November 2016 Born to Beekeep

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PRESS RELEASE
Date: 21st
November 2016
Title: Born to beekeep
With a surname like Mielgo, is
working with bees your
destiny?
Paulo Mielgo (miel means
honey in Spanish) has joined
Vita as its new technical
manager. He comes from
Argentina and beekeeping is
in his blood. His father has
managed 700 hives across a
wide territory north of Buenos
Aires and he can’t really
remember his first encounter
with a beehive because he
would have been only a very
few years old.
After gaining a degree from a
veterinary college in
Argentina, Paulo has worked
in many different countries
including Italy, México, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Chile and
Argentina.
Paulo comes to Vita from Apilab, Vita’s South American partner, and will be working
with researchers and universities to help develop new honey bee health and nutrition
products.
On his first trip to see some British apiaries, Paulo called in to see the church at Wooton
St Lawrence, near Vita’s HQ. The village church has a great beekeeping history

2. because it was once the parish church of the Rev Charles Butler, author of The
Feminine Monarchie, published in 1623 and the first book to promote the idea that the
head of a hive is a queen and not a king.
About Vita (Europe) Limited
Vita (Europe) Limited is a mite control and honeybee health specialist. It is the world’s
largest dedicated supplier of honeybee health products to the honey and pollination
industries. With a rigorous and ethical approach to research and development into
honeybee health, Vita has no commercial interests in crop pesticides or crop breeding
that may be harmful to honeybees.
Vita researches, develops, and manufactures a range of honeybee health products. Its
headquarters are in the UK, it has offices in Italy, France and Russia, and partners
across the globe. These products are marketed internationally through a network of 60
distributors in 50 countries.
Vita’s honeybee health product range includes anti-varroa acaricides – Apistan®
(outside the USA/Canada) and Apiguard® – chalkbrood and wax moth
controls and foulbrood diagnostic kits. Vita also supplies Asian hornet traps, Small Hive
Beetle traps and swarm lures. Vita products have been registered by more than 60
veterinary authorities.
Vita promotes sustainable beekeeping through Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Its
treatments are designed to inhibit the build-up of resistance and wherever possible
contain natural compounds and biological controls that are benign to all but the target
pests.
Vita invests a very high proportion of its turnover in research and development.
Research partners include universities such as Thessaloniki, Cardiff, Milan, Udine and
Naples and institutes such as the FERA Laboratories in the UK and the USDA in
America. Vita’s innovative research and development work has been recognised by and
has received support from the UK Government.
As a result of its primary research of natural control agents, Vita is currently engaged in
new projects exploring mite control in the agriculture, veterinary, and horticulture
industries as well as public health and human allergen control.

3. See www.vita-europe.com for more information and a web app which can be accessed
at www.healthybeeguide.com.
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on Twitter.
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