FEEDING PREFERENCE OF INDIAN HONEYBEE Apis cerana indica F. ON DIFFERENT POLLEN SUBSTITUTE DIETS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 53
Abstract
The study was carried out in Department of Agricultural Entomology Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during 2014-15 to find out the feeding preference of Indian Honey bee (Apis cerana indica) on different pollen substitute (PS) diets, which resemble natural pollen in nutritional values. For preparing pollen substitute diets locally available nutritional rich ingredients was selected such as pulses powder along with skimmed milk powder, Honey, Glucose and powdered sugar. It was found that red gram based diet was more alluring to the honey bees compared to other formulations, as the colonies fed with Parched red gram flour (PRGF) based PS recorded the lowest number of days to consume the diet with a mean of 5.2 days followed by Parched bengal gram flour (PBGF) based diet (5.9 days) Parched horse gram flour (PHGF) based diet took longest time (7.3 days). In the case of number of bees feeding on each diet PRGF based diet was consumed rapidly compared to other diets with a mean of 41.5 bees per day followed by Parched black gram flour (PBGF) based and PBeGF based PS with a mean of 38.3 and 35.8 bees per day respectively. Honey bees preferred the PS diets provided on 1.5 mm nylon compared to butter. Sugar feeding can also be given in dearth periods along with PS diets.
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M. KISHAN TEJ
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