@article{Bucio-Villalobos_Martínez-Jaime_2019, title={Extraction of apitoxin with an electric collector in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico}, volume={30}, url={https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/agromeso/article/view/33987}, DOI={10.15517/am.v30i2.33987}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction. </strong>The toxin (apitoxin) produced by <em>Apis mellifera </em>bees, is a product with important expectations in the medical industry, due to the therapeutic use in various diseases. <strong>Objetive. </strong>The objective of the present study was to estimate the annual production potential of apitoxin, collected through an automated equipment operating with electrical impulses of 10 s of duration and a voltage of 12 v. <strong>Materials and methods. </strong>Five beehives were used from a beekeeping farm located in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, where the apitoxin was harvested from August 2016 to June 2017, at biweekly intervals for a period of 20 min at a time, suspending the collection in those periods with abundant flows of nectar, to not affect the production of honey. <strong>Results. </strong>According to the conditions in which this study was developed, the average (± standard deviation) per harvest with biweekly extraction was 52,41±13,83 mg.hive-1, production that was increased to 62,48±1,37 mg.hive-1, considering only colonies with low levels of <em>Varroa destructor </em>infestation. <strong>Conclusion. </strong>The apicultural region where this research was developed, presented potential for the production of apitoxin, being proposed as an additional apicultural product that allows increasing the profitability of the apiary. </p>}, number={2}, journal={Agronomía Mesoamericana}, author={Bucio-Villalobos, Carlos Manuel and Martínez-Jaime, Oscar Alejandro}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={459–467} }