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Pollen Source’s Effects on Honeybee Queen Rearing

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Last updated: 29 Mar 2025

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Protein-rich diets are known to promote mandibular glands development in nurse workers of the honeybee, hybrid of Apis mellifera carnica. Since the main source of protein for honeybees is pollen, its quality, and digestibility might be important dietary factors determining glands secretions. Since the nurse workers feed the queens, the queen ovaries are affected by the nurse worker's nutrition. Also, the hemolymph is essential for immunological protection, honeybee chemical transport, and physiological state monitoring. The present work has compared the effect of four types of pollen (clover, Eucalyptus, Corn plant, and Brazilian pepper tree) upon morphological and physiological characteristics of honeybee queens reared at the previous pollen sources. In general, the highest mean of acceptance and mating rate of reared queens were recorded in the Eucalyptus pollen, and the highest mean of queens and virgin weight were observed in the Brazilian pepper pollen. Furthermore, there was a significant difference among means of head width, thorax, and ovarioles length which have a highest mean in the clover pollen, but a number of ovarioles and spermatheca size have the highest mean in the Brazilian pepper pollen, while the highest mean of abdominal length recorded in the Zea mays. In addition, the greatest means of haemocytes was in larvae fed on the Zea mays pollen and then the clover pollen. The predominant types of haemocytes observed were the plasmatocyte cells followed by granulocytes, then the proheamocytes, coagulocytes, and oenocytes. This study provides a guide for Egyptian beekeepers to know the best seasons of plants for rearing and obtaining high-quality queens.

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2025.417847

Keywords

Queen rearing, acceptance rate, mating rate, Morphometric Measurements, Hemolymph

Authors

First Name

Hala

Last Name

Abdel-Sattar

MiddleName

Abulmagd Soliman

Affiliation

Apiculture Dept. Plant Protection Institute, Agric. Res.,Center, Egypt

Email

halaa_137956@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

الإسكندرية

Orcid

0009-0009-1815-7608

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

Mesbah

MiddleName

Ibrahim Hassan

Affiliation

Plant Protection Dept. Faculty of Agric, Tanta. Univ.,Egypt.

Email

ibrahim.mesbah@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

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First Name

khaled

Last Name

Abdel-Hameed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Apiculture Dept. Plant Protection Institute, Agric. Res, Center, Egypt

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khaledabdelhameed041@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

Haitham

Last Name

Ramadan

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Egypt

Email

hmamramadan@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

طنطا

Orcid

0000-0002-4957-0763

Volume

46

Article Issue

1

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52830

Issue Date

2025-03-01

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2025-02-05

Publish Date

2025-03-30

Page Start

135

Page End

142

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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ASEJAIQJSAE_Volume 46_Issue 1_Pages 135-142.pdf

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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Pollen Source’s Effects on Honeybee Queen Rearing

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29 Mar 2025