STUDIES ON SOME BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERS OF HONEY BEE RACES | ||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||
| Article 1, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2006, Pages 7953-7961 PDF (126.64 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2006.235358 | ||
| Author | ||
| H. T. Abou El-Enain, | ||
| Beekeeping Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki-Glza, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present work aimed to study: I Effect of colors on aggressiveness of honeybee races. 2. Hygienic behaviour in the laboratory tests and the colony as indication of controlling of brood disease and varroa mite. 3. Relationship between aggressiveness and hygienic behaviour. 4-Ggrooming behaviour, and experience of the bees for removed disease brood as quickly by mixed some races to another colony races wtiich the bees didn’t learn the behaviour. The results obtained showed that, the Egyptian honeybee colonies showed the severest aggressivcness and the Carniolan hybrid and Italian colonies show more aggressiveness than the other colonies of pure races. The races of honeybee colonies showed that, the severest aggressiveness to red and purple colors but the inferior aggressiveness to wtìite and yellow colors. Highest value of hygienic bahaviour was in Egyptian colonies followed by FI Italian and Fi Camiolan colonies but the lowest value was in Carniolan colonies. The relationship between aggressive behaviour and hygienic behaviour in the honeybee colonies, showed that Egyptian honeybee colonies caused high aggressive behaviour (93.61%) and hygienic behaviour (94.79%), on the contrary the Italian honeybee colonies caused aggressive behaviour (17.23%) and hygienic behaviour (47.52%$ There was a positive correlation between aggressive behaviour and hygienic behaviour for the honeybee races in the expenments. Highest grooming behaviour was found in Egyptian race, followed by Italian hybrid, Cambian hybrid. On the contrary, the lowest grooming behaviour was found in Camiolan and Italian race. While addition Egyptian sealed worker brood in the other colony races, the debris mites maybe occurred as a result of attacking this mite by mandibles of workers bees and this behaviour (grooming behaviour) is more of FI Italian and FI Carniolan. On the other hand addition Egyptian sealed worker brood in Cambian, Italian, Fi Carniolan and FI Italian colonies caused increase of resistance mechanism to Varroasis reached 1421, 27.3, 28.57 and 26.32%. respectively. | ||
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