Bee stimulation to form protein food reserves

Ján Brindza,Serhii Velychko,Valeryii Brovarskyi

doi:10.5219/1562

Abstract

We have investigated different ways of bees’ stimulation to lay protein food while using artificial honeycombs. It has been proved that the use of artificial combs to get bee-bread upon the condition of the post-treatment processing of its elements by wax and honey syrup does not stimulate bees to lay and process protein food in their cells. It has been identified that upon the condition of the direct involvement of the working bees into the formation of bee-bread supplies the protein food has been mostly consumed. This proves that the working bees use the freshly-gathered pollen pellet for their own needs in the period of its active gathering. It has been determined that the most effective way of bee stimulation to reprocess pollen pellet into bee-bread is it's single densifying in artificial honeycombs with the follow-up processing of the upper layer of the feed by honey. This way encourages bees to form stocks of bee bread and decreases their activity of consuming protein food from cells of artificial honeycombs. The processing of thickened pollen pellet by honey probably oppresses the bees’ need to consume protein food from the packed cells redirecting them to other honeycombs of the bee family’s nest which has areas with bee-bread reserves.

Highlights

Pollen is the only source of protein that bees collect from nature
We have investigated different ways of bees’ stimulation to lay protein food while using artificial honeycombs
To stimulate honey bee colonies to store up protein food, lots of work has been done to form their nests

Summary

Introduction

Pollen is the only source of protein that bees collect from nature. This is very important for the development of the offspring, and for the development of bee colonies (Anđelković et al, 2012). The use of dry pollen pellet on the condition that it’s put into the box of artificial honeycombs in small amounts doesn’t stimulate bees to lay the bee bread intensively, even if the thickening and the processing of the food by honey syrup are done 4 times.

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