DescriptionPRESENTATION: Grey to brown free flowing fine meal. ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS: Each gram contains: a minimum of 500,000 chlamydospores of Duddingtonia flagrans IAH 1297. PROPERTIES: BioWorma® contains the spores of Duddingtonia flagrans, a natural fungus found in soil and on pasture. It is a non-chemical biological control for the free-living stages of parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes of grazing animals, which acts by substantially reducing the numbers of infective worm larvae (including chemical/multi-resistant larvae) emerging from manure onto pasture. When fed to animals, the thick-walled spores remain inert (having no effect within the host animal) and resist digestion, p assing through into the manure. There they germinate and form trapping organs that capture, paralyse and consume emerging worm larvae (including chemical/multi-resistant larvae), interrupting the crucial re-infestation stage of the parasites’ life cycle, thus reducing the amount of reinfection on the pasture. The spores are safe, non-toxic and residue-free. There are no negative effects on non-target soil nematodes, earthworms, microarthropods etc.
