Apicultural products, environmentally friendly due to organic extra nutrition

Abstract

At the apiary of the small innovative enterprise “Zhivprom,” Carpathian bees were studied to find out the producibility of apicultural products that are environmentally friendly due to natural concentrates of organic humic and fulvic acids as extra nutrition. For the experiment, 30 bee colonies of the Carpathian breed were selected and divided into 2 groups according to the pair-analogue principle, taking into account their origins, strength, age of queens and similar amounts of food reserves. In mid-March, 30 bees from each colony were selected from each hive to extract their rectums for morphometric measurement and determination of their excrement filling. In February and March, there was a considerable increase in the consumption of the feeding, with organic acids candy being consumed much better. The concentrates of organic acids of natural origin helped to increase the egg production of queen bees and the strength of the colony. The concentrates had no toxic effect on bees and, due to its natural origin, can be recommended as a feed additive in organic beekeeping.