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Effect of Honey Bee Hybrid, Season and Position of Collecting Plate Inside the Hive on the Quantity of Harvested Dry Venom in Egypt

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Agricultural Economic Entomology

Abstract

  This research was conducted to evaluate the biological effect (bees hybrids), environmental (collection season) and technical method (location of collecting plate within the hive) on the amounts of harvested dry venom using electrical chock method in Giza, Egypt. Ninety-six honeybee colonies in homogenous strength were selected from Carniolan and Italian hybrids (48 colonies each). Each hybrid group was equally divided into six subgroups, which were distributed from March to August. The venom was collected only once from each subgroup. The results showed that the upper frame position of collecting plate was the best with significant amounts of venom (29.4 mg/col.), higher than putting the plate beneath the frames (14.6 mg/col.). The colonies of Carniolan hybrid produced significant quantity of dry venom (26.5 mg /col.) compared with Italian hybrids (17.6 mg /col.). Also, the mean amount of harvested venom during spring season was significantly higher (23.1 mg/col.) than that produced during summer season (20.8 mg/col.). A pronounced quantity of dry venom could be monthly produce throughout the period from March to August, ranging from 21.4 to 34.1 mg/col., with the upper frames collecting plate.

DOI

10.21608/ejarc.2024.343918

Keywords

Apis mellifera, Hybrid, harvest, Venom, Carniolan bees, Italian bees

Authors

First Name

Mohammad

Last Name

Abd Alfattah

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 12613- Giza, Egypt

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City

Giza

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Elfeel

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Honeybee Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Email

mahmoud.elfeel@gmail.com

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First Name

Elsayed

Last Name

Haggag

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Honeybee Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Email

haggaghoney@yahoo.com

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Volume

75

Article Issue

1

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45929

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2024-01-02

Publish Date

2024-01-01

Page Start

42

Page End

47

Print ISSN

2812-4847

Online ISSN

2812-4855

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https://ejarc.journals.ekb.eg/article_343918.html

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343,918

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Research articles

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2,144

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ejarc.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Honey Bee Hybrid, Season and Position of Collecting Plate Inside the Hive on the Quantity of Harvested Dry Venom in Egypt

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28 Dec 2024