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- Title
The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and BodyWeight of Caged Honeybees.
- Authors
Eşanu, Dan; Pop, Ioan Mircea; Simeanu, Daniel
- Abstract
For beekeeping profitability even in droughty years, beekeepers replace natural bee food sources (pollen, nectar) with alternative food recipes based on energy syrups and protein flour, which determines certain consequences on the overall status of bee colonies and implicitly on their productions. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of feeding with energy and energy-protein sources on food consumption and body weight of caged honeybees, during a 30 days period. Food consumption recorded the highest values for bees that received only energy feed, and the lowest values for those with energy-protein feed. Regarding to energy food, honey consumption recorded higher values than those of energy syrup consumption. The introducing of protein substances into food recipes (especially pollen substitutes) has led to an increase in the bee's body weight first, while in the last period this suddenly recorded lower values than those of bees fed only with energy food recipes; this could be due to the elimination of intestinal content.
- Subjects
HONEYBEES; INSECT food; DIETARY supplements
- Publication
Scientific Papers: Animal Science & Biotechnologies / Lucrari Stiintifice: Zootehnie si Biotehnologii, 2018, Vol 51, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1841-9364
- Publication type
Article