Effect of artificial pollen substitute diets on diets consumption, brood area, and colonies strength of Apis mellifera L. colonies during dearth period
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pollen diets, honey bee, brood area, colonies, populationAbstract
Honey bees play a good role in the production of valuable products and pollination of different plants. pollen diets are one of the most important ingredients for honey bees to develop and build up colonies. Many honey bee colonies lose due to nutritional stress, we check the effect of four different pollen diets (D1, D2, D3, and D4 50g each D5 is control colony) on brood and colonies strength in honey bees Apis mellifera. Results indicated that mean consumption of diets was D1, D2, D3, and D4 (38.47g, 49.53 g, 33.60 g, and 46.0 g), and brood area was (1357.0 cm2,1567.3 cm2, 1251.8 cm2, and 1456.3 cm2) respectfully, and good effect on population increasing in selected colonies about 50%, 60%, 46%, and 50%. And control colony D5 remained the same brood area and frame population before and after treatment. Pollen substitute diets can be effective in stimulating honey bee colonies to rear brood. All diets tested here were not equally effective in brood rearing. Our results showed that the artificial pollen diets correlation p ≤ 0.05 an effect on honey bees health and increased colonies strength.
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