Description
PRESENTATION: 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 re
infection 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.
