Effects of nutrition with pollen supplement prepared with pea flour on colonies of honey bee Apis mellifera L. (Hym.: Apidae)
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Keywords: Nutrition, Palatability, Honey bee, Pea flour, Pollen supplement, Probee, Population increase,
Abstract :
This study was carried out to determine the effects of nutrition with different proteinaceous substances on honey bee special factors including mature bee population, the larvae containing area and the diets palatability. The experiment was set out in a completely randomized design with 6 treatments and 5 replicates. The experimental substances were soybean flour, bakery barn, pea flour, sugar powder, honey and milk. Pea flour was a novel and particular proteinaceous material in this experiment that was applied in different diets. The experiment was initiated early in spring 2011 and involved two distinct feeding periods on 3 May 2011 and 24 May 2011 and three trial instances on 3 May 2011, 24 May 2011 and 14 June 2011. The treatments consisted of: (1) pollen supplement with 3 parts of pea flour and sugar syrup, (2) with 2 parts of pea flour and sugar syrup, (3) without pea flour and sugar syrup, (4) Probee® )commercial pollen supplement( and sugar beverage, (5) sugar syrup only, and (6) the control group. The results revealed that the entire treatments with supplements of pollen yielded much more population rather than number 6. In terms of palatability of diets, the highest palatability was observed for the 3rd, 2nd and 4th diets, respectively, whilst the lowest one was for the 1st diet. The first diet was less consumed compared to the others. It is concluded that the 2nd diet exceeds others in terms of its effect on increasing population of larvae and adults and palatability.
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