Beta
50556

Impact of Winter Feeding with Some Protein Pollen Supplement Diets on the Biological Activities of Honeybees

Article

Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Different protein sources, defatted soybean flour, casein or whey protein concentrate, were used for the preparation of three protein pollen supplement diets to feed colonies of Apis mellifera carnica, during the winter season. The effect of studied protein pollen supplement diets on food consumption (%), sealed brood area (In2), pollen stores (In2) and honeybee strength (in terms of mean number of combs covered with bees) of the colonies were recorded. The results indicated that, the defatted soybean flour or whey protein concentrate pollen supplement diet was more consumed by the honeybee colonies than casein pollen supplement diet. Also, the highest areas of worker sealed brood, stored pollen and colony population density were observed with defatted soybean flour or whey protein concentrate pollen supplement diet. Casein pollen supplement diet was found to be the lowest consumed and showed the lowest biological activities among three tested pollen supplement diets. There was a positive relationship between the amount of diet consumed and the changes in worker sealed brood, stored pollen and colony population density. Defatted soybean flour or whey protein concentrate in pollen supplement diets of honeybees during winter season proved to be very effective and could be valuable to improve colony parameters.

DOI

10.21608/jppp.2016.50556

Keywords

defatted soybean flour, casein or whey protein concentrate, pollen supplement diets, food consumption, sealed brood area, pollen stores, honeybee strength

Authors

First Name

H.

Last Name

Mahfouz

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Dept. of Plant Production, Fac. of Environ. Agric. Sci., Al-Arish, Suez Canal Univ., Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

7

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

7821

Issue Date

2016-05-01

Receive Date

2019-09-30

Publish Date

2016-05-01

Page Start

307

Page End

310

Print ISSN

2090-3677

Online ISSN

2090-3758

Link

https://jppp.journals.ekb.eg/article_50556.html

Detail API

https://jppp.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=50556

Order

7

Type

Original Article

Type Code

888

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

Publication Link

https://jppp.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023