Data/hora: 12/06/2024 13:40:17

Provedor de dados: | 70
País: | Brazil
Título: | Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods
Autores: | Brasil,Daniel de F.; Guimarães,Michelle de O.; Barbosa Filho,José Antonio D.; Freitas,Breno M.
Data: | 2013-10-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Colony homeostasis; Thermal comfort; Colony management.
Resumo: | This study aimed to investigate the ideal brood area to be introduced for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies, considering variations in the hive's internal ambience. Therefore, eight colonies were equipped with data loggers for recording variations in temperature and humidity inside the hives. Then, these colonies were split in four treatments involving the swapping of four, three, two and one brood comb between strong and weak colonies. Growth in the amount of brood and food stores to the four colony strengthening treatments was assessed counting the comb cells to record changes in the brood and food area. The colonies tended to restore their normal thermoregulation within four hours after they had been manipulated and the hive cover had been closed, which quickly increased brood area in the receiving colonies. Results showed that adding up to three brood combs constitute an important alternative for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies because it did not interfere with nest thermoregulation, speeded up population growth in weak colonies and did not affect the development of strong colonies.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162013000500002
Editor: | Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-69162013000500002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Engenharia Agrícola  v.33 n.5 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess