Impacts of Natural and Supplementary Foods on Some Biochemical Activities in the Bodies of Honeybee Workers | ||
| Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 6, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 147-155 PDF (251.31 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajs.2022.108947.1440 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sobhia Sayed* 1; Mohamed Elsaeed Elsherif2; Adel Mahmoud Basuony2; Naglaa Ghazala1 | ||
| 1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| 2Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture,Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The experiments were conducted during seasons (summer, au-tumn, winter, and spring) 2020–2021 to study the activities of invertase, adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), and alkaline phosphatase (AlkP) as well as the determination of total proteins. These activities were determined in the bodies of adult honeybee worker, Apis mellifera, (house and forager bees) after feeding on three different diet groups (A) pollen cake, (B) supplementary diet and (C) control group during the four seasons. Group (A) received 50 g pollen cake + 250 ml honey syrup (2 honey: 1 water)/colony/three-day intervals, group (B) received 50 g Brewer’s yeast chickpea cake fortified with 4.2% pollen + 250 ml sugar syrup (2 sugar: 1 water) while group (C) received 250 ml sugar syrup (1 sugar: 1 water) only. Results indicated that the highest increase in total proteins was found in group B during the autumn season with house bees. Invertase activity was high in group A during the summer season with forager bees. The highest ATPase activity was observed in group B during the spring season with house bees, whereas the highest AlkP activities were found in group A during the autumn season with house bees. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Honeybee; Protein; Invertase; ATPase; Alkaline phosphatase | ||
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