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Artificial Feeding and Wing Symmetry in Drone Honeybees

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Wing asymmetry was used to measure the possible stress which could be created when we feed honeybee colony with cane and beet sugar syrup in comparison with feeding with honey (control). For this purpose, 25 traits of wing venation pattern on left and right forewing of drone honey bees were used. The results indicated that directional asymmetry (DA) was not related to the type of feeding. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) differed between characters and between feeding treatments, but no interaction was found between them. The individual characters were combined and analyzed as composite fluctuating asymmetry (CFA) to maximize the probability of detecting (FA)-stress relationship when it exists. The result showed that (CFA) of vein angels were significantly higher in sugar-feeding than in honey-feeding colonies.

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10.21608/jppp.2018.43955

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Honeybees, drones, forewing venation, vein distance, vein angels, polar coordination, fluctuating asymmetry, directional asymmetry, composite fluctuating asymmetry

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Fathy

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Department of Economic Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University

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Mazeed

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Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University

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Nafae

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Department of Apiculture, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Dokki, Giza.

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Abd El Dayem

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Department of Apiculture, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Dokki, Giza.

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9

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6846

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2018-10-01

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2019-08-05

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2018-10-01

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2090-3677

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2090-3758

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Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

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22 Jan 2023