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Provedor de dados: | Ciência Rural
País: | Brazil
Título: | Variation in honey yield per hive of Africanized bees depending on the introducing time of young queens
Autores: | Carbonari,Vladson; Malaspina,Osmar; Alves Junior,Valter Vieira; Polatto,Leandro Pereira.
Data: | 2016-05-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Apiculture; Climatic season; Egg laying rate.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT: The objective of this research was to evaluate the honey production per hive and the egg laying rates of queens produced in 2007, 2008 and 2010. Thirty colonies initiated with a queen per colony at each climatic season were used during the three years. The years, started on January (summer), April (autumn), July (winter) and October (spring) and ended 12 months later, at the same periods related to each season of the later years. Honey supply were weighed before and after centrifugation to evaluate the quantity of the stored honey. Colonies with queens introduced during autumn and winter in the three years produced 57.2±6.0kg and 60.7±7.5kg of honey, respectively. In the first year of production activity, after the introduction of queens in the initial colonies, values were significantly higher than those obtained in colonies with queens introduced in the summer (39.3±7.6kg) and spring (41.8±3.7kg). Egg laying rates of queens were higher in spring (98.2±3.9%) and summer (88.4±7%), indicating greater food flow (flowerings) in these seasons compared to the averages in autumn (30.3±8.1%) and winter (24.5±7.2%). Produce and introduce queens of Africanized Apis mellifera in colonies initiated during autumn and winter was found to be economically feasible. Honey production of colonies initiated in these periods were higher and they had greater population stability in times of scarcity of flowerings.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782016000500895
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Relação: | 10.1590/0103-8478cr20151126
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciência Rural  v.46 n.5 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess