Development of Pollen Substitute Diets for Apis mellifera ligustica Colonies and their Impact on Brood Development and Honey Production

Islam, Noor; Mahmood, Rashid; Sarwar, Ghulam; Ahmad, Sarfaraz; Abid, Saleem

doi:10.17582/journal.pjar/2020/33.2.381.388

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“…Further, the consumption of a supplemental diet increased the worker-sealed brood area, honey bee population density, and honey yield compared to control groups ( Table 1 ). Sihag and Gupta [ 37 ], Lamontagne-Drolet, Samson-Robert [ 38 ], and Islam, Mahmood [ 39 ] reported a similar result that the surface of sealed brood area was increased after the consumption of various supplements and pollen substitutes by honey bees. Similarly, Abd El-Wahab, Ghania [ 31 ] represented the same results that sealed brood area increased in supplementarily fed bee colonies in relation to un-fed bee colonies.…”

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“…Similarly, Abd El-Wahab, Ghania [ 31 ] represented the same results that sealed brood area increased in supplementarily fed bee colonies in relation to un-fed bee colonies. DeGrandi-Hoffman, Wardell [ 34 , 39 , 40 ] revealed that supplemental diets increased the population density in comparison to the non-supplemented control group. Honey yield also increased significantly in those bee colonies which fed on supplemental diets than the control colonies that fed only sugar syrup [ 26 , 31 , 39 ].…”

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“…DeGrandi-Hoffman, Wardell [ 34 , 39 , 40 ] revealed that supplemental diets increased the population density in comparison to the non-supplemented control group. Honey yield also increased significantly in those bee colonies which fed on supplemental diets than the control colonies that fed only sugar syrup [ 26 , 31 , 39 ]. All supplemental diets tests here were not equally effective in stimulating the various biological activities of honey bee colonies.…”

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Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Ahmad

Khan

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PLoS ONE

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A healthy honey bee stock is critical to the beekeeping industry and the sustainability of the ecosystem. The quality of the supplemental diet influences the development and strength of the colony, especially during the pollen dearth period in the surrounding environment. However, the extent to which pollen substitute protein feeding affects honey bee colony parameters is not fully known. We conducted this study to test the influence of various supplemental diets on foraging effort, pollen load, capped brood area, population density, and honey yield. The treatment groups were supplied with patties of pollen substitute diets, whereas sugar syrup was given to the control group. Our results indicated that honey bees consumed a significantly higher amount of Diet 1 (45 g soybean flour + 15 g Brewer’s yeast + 75 g powdered sugar + 7.5 g skimmed milk + 7.5 g date palm pollen + 200 mL sugar syrup supplement with Vitamin C) followed by others supplemented diets. Further, pollen load, worker-sealed brood area, population strength, and honey yield differed significantly when Diet 1 was consumed instead of other supplemental diets. The proportion of biological parameters was less in the control group as compared to other treatments. This study highlights the potential of supplemental diets to improve the bee’s health and colony development when the pollens availability and diversity are insufficient.

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Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

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Khan

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“…For example, Blends of soybean flour + honey + water showed the excellent pollen alternative among all the four blends and supported a healthy population of bees after nourishing these diets ( Usha et al, 2014 ). Similarly many studies noted a significant worker sealed brood by feeding the bee’s colonies with pollen alternate enriched foods for growing the worker brood area ( Saffari et al, 2010 , Sihag and Gupta, 2011 , Islam et al, 2020 ). There are many reports which supported our results that after providing supplementary dietary substances resulted in more number of frames/colony over bee colonies in control which resulted in maximum honey production ( Sabir et al, 2000 , Dodologlu et al, 2004 , De Grandi Hoffman et al, 2008 , Rashid et al, 2013 , Sihag and Gupta, 2013 ).…”

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“…Aly et al (2019) studied the impact of artificial diet on honey bee colony strength and found soybean diet as the most effective. Similarly, Islam et al (2020) also found soybean enriched diet improved the different morphological, physical activities and ultimately honey yield. Kumar et al (2021) noted augmented honey yield and disease resilience in honey bees reared on artificial diets.…”

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Nutritional effects of supplementary diets on brood development, biological activities and honey production of Apis mellifera L

Ullah

Shahzad

Iqbal

et al. 2021

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

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The present research work was conducted to assess the impact of nutrient-enriched diet on the physiological activities and subsequently honey yield. Eighteen colonies of Apis mellifera L. were selected from Dera Ismail Khan region, KPK, Pakistan, during the winter and summer seasons, 2019–2020. Five pollen supplement diets were prepared and provided to screen out the palatable one to be fed as pollen alternative nutrition to bee bread. Results of diet consumption regarding mean data for consumption rate displayed that soybean flour enriched artificial diet was maximally consumed (74.34 g) by honey bees per week. Minimum consumption was observed for grinded groundnut enriched diet (64.62 g) which was relatively lesser than the other tested artificial diets. Results of area of worker brood disclosed that soybean flour fortified diet (1489.27 cm 2 /colony) statistically noteworthy than the other artificial diets whereas control (463.51 cm 2 /colony) was least effective. Highest bee strength (10.00 bee frames/colony) was noted in the bee colonies fed with soybean flour fortified diet, date paste (8.0 bee frames/colony) was the next effective one, among the tested pollen replacement diets whereas relatively least (5 bee frames/colony) was noticed in case of grinded groundnut. Highest body weight (12.41 g) of neonate bees was noted in case of soybean enriched diet while lowermost (5.31 g) was noted in control bees. Results of wax cell built up and foraging efficiency were also superior in artificial diets than respective control bees. Hence, artificial diets especially soybean-enriched pollen alternative diet can boost up the physiology of honey bee leading to increased honey yield and profit.

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Factors that limit the productive use of Apis mellifera L.– a review

Castellanos-Potenciano,

Vivas Rodríguez,

Ramos-Hernández

2024

Int J Trop Insect Sci

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Development of Pollen Substitute Diets for Apis mellifera ligustica Colonies and their Impact on Brood Development and Honey Production

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Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Nutritional effects of supplementary diets on brood development, biological activities and honey production of Apis mellifera L

Factors that limit the productive use of Apis mellifera L.– a review

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