Influence of sugary feeding with some vitamins on phenoloxidase and antioxidant activity in honeybee workers, Apis mellifera L. | ||
| Minia Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 3, Volume 42, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 33-48 PDF (1.15 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjard.2022.123189.1003 | ||
| Authors | ||
| samah folley abo elliel* 1; Ehab Wafik Zidan2; Hosafy Mohamed Eshbah3 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Protection Faculty of Agriculture University of Minya | ||
| 2Department of plant protection Res. Inst.Agric.Res.center,Dokki,Giza,Egypt. | ||
| 3Economic Entomology (Apiculture),Fac.Agric.,Minia Univ. Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Although it had been demonstrated that honeybees have required some vitamins,there had been few attempts to quantify these requirements. Our results highlighted the effectiveness of Phenoloxidase (PO) and Antioxidant (AO) activity in honeybee workers and vitamin types added with sugar solution as early and vitamins important indicators. There was a clear improvement in the antioxidant system in bee colonies that were provided with sugary feeding with vitamins mixture compared to other vitamins individually (A, B, C and E) and control ones. This suggests that honey bee workers need artificial feeding with mixed vitamins during winter season possess mechanisms that reduce their oxidative stress. Together, ourresults suggest that vitamins in winter feeding for 14 weeks (from 1 December to 14 March) has the potential to improve colony development and health during overwintering, a period of high colony losses. The results shoued that vitamins diet had the potential to improve colony development and health during winter, the led to the absence of Eroupean foulbrood disease and reduction of varroa infection compared to the control. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Honeybee; Phenoloxidase; Antioxidant; Vitamins | ||
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