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FOOD SHORATGE IN COLONIES AFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORAGER HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA L.) APIDAE HYMENOPTERA

. Hafiz Khurram Shurjeel, Yusra Yasmin, Sadia khanum, Sundas Asghar, Nadia Saeed, Ambreen Akram, Shazia Iqbal, Nasir Khan, Khayam, Riaz Hussain & Murad Ali.


Abstract

Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are imperative and pollinators and require sufficient food for their survival. The worker with great pollen and nectar collecting capacity are considered the proficient and comparative to others. Food requirement in bee colonies triggers few colony strength characteristics. Apart from various perspectives such as genotype and approximate generous assets, predominantly forager’s triggers the number of hatching through providing sufficient food. The current study was conducted to check the effect of food shortage in the honey bee colonies. In the first experiment four colonies were used; one colony was named as a fed colony (control treatment) and other three colonies were declared as starved colonies. In the second experiment, two colonies; one as fed and other as starved were used. In the third experiment, three colonies; one as fed (control treatment), one as starved and one FBSC colonies were used. The mortality was more in the starved colonies than in fed ones in all the experiments with the significant values showed by Chi- square model  df= 3, X2= 16.04, p= 0.0001, df= 3, X2= 1448, p= 0.0004 and df= 3, X2= 28.82, p < 0.00001 respectively. Therefore it is concluded from the findings that food shortage in the colony increase mortality and bee behavior.

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