Abstract
During the previous decades the natural populations of honey bee Apis mellifera carnica at the territory of Republic of Serbia has been subjected to constant negative influence of man, in first place through deployment of pesticides, herbicides and other chemical substances requisite in agriculture, but also due to uncontrolled import of and crossbreeding with the other breeds of this bee. For the purpose of preservation of existing populations and natural diversity of honey bee and for the purpose of their further selection, researches upon the metric morphology and productive features of certain individual populations of choice at the territory of Republic of Serbia. In this study the quantity of the nest, of bees and of honey with two East Serbian lines (S and L) of honey bee during the spring season have been the subject of survey. The S line has shown more advanced development having 1.06 frames more and 0.11 bees more in the second year assessed. At the Szabo test of honey productivity the S line has shown in both years assessed that it had collected 29.91% and 49.51% more honey per respective year than the line L bees. Through the survey of morphological parameters we have come to conclusion that the differences in length of the forewing and the rear wing, cubital index, length of the tongue and number of spikes at the rear wing have been statistically very significant (p < 0.01).
Highlights
Within the Apis mellifera (L) breed of bees certain geographical breeds exist which inhabit the smaller geographic isolated areas and which haveN
Georgijeva (2006) has conducted examination upon the area of the nest with 7 lines of honey-bee at the Eastern Serbia, and established that it had varied from the average of 1.59 frames at the first spring examination up to 3.68 frames at the second spring examination
In the course of the biennial period the areas of nests and quantity of bees have been recorded according to the standard method of evaluation by 1/10 of the frame in the course of two spring season examinations in a month interval, while the honey productivity test has been conducted by the Szabo (1982) method
Summary
Within the Apis mellifera (L) breed of bees certain geographical breeds exist which inhabit the smaller geographic isolated areas and which have. Georgijeva (2006) has conducted examination upon the area of the nest with 7 lines of honey-bee at the Eastern Serbia, and established that it had varied from the average of 1.59 frames at the first spring examination up to 3.68 frames at the second spring examination At their biennial researches Georgijeva and Plavša (2005) state the assessment of 2.96 frames at the first spring examination, while in the second year of research they have assessed the same feature as being 1.55 frames. The harvest of honey is a very significant feature in evaluation and selection of parent clusters, which evaluation is conducted on the basis of tertian honey harvest upon the acacia pasture by the Szabo (1982) method Based her claims upon the biennial examinations conducted upon several different breeds of the honey-bee as of their honey productivity, Georgijeva (2006) states that the average harvest of honey per each year amounted to 11.05 kg and 3.13 kg respectively
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
