The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees
For beekeeping profitability even in droughty years, beekeepers replace natural bee food sources (pollen, nectar) with alternative food recipes based on energy syrups and protein flour, which determines certain consequences on the overall status of bee colonies and implicitly on their productions. T...
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| description | For beekeeping profitability even in droughty years, beekeepers replace natural bee food sources (pollen, nectar) with alternative food recipes based on energy syrups and protein flour, which determines certain consequences on the overall status of bee colonies and implicitly on their productions. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of feeding with energy and energy-protein sources on food consumption and body weight of caged honeybees, during a 30 days period. Food consumption recorded the highest values for bees that received only energy feed, and the lowest values for those with energy-protein feed. Regarding to energy food, honey consumption recorded higher values than those of energy syrup consumption. The introducing of protein substances into food recipes (especially pollen substitutes) has led to an increase in the bee's body weight first, while in the last period this suddenly recorded lower values than those of bees fed only with energy food recipes; this could be due to the elimination of intestinal content. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba846144f85d4d1b804d2a3606a522712024-04-10T10:56:32ZengAgroprint TimisoaraScientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies1841-93642344-45762023-09-0151115151000The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged HoneybeesDan Eșanu0Ioan Mircea Pop1Daniel Simeanu2University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iaşi, Iaşi, Mihail Sadoveanu Alley, 8, RomaniaUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iaşi, Iaşi, Mihail Sadoveanu Alley, 8, RomaniaUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iaşi, Iaşi, Mihail Sadoveanu Alley, 8, RomaniaFor beekeeping profitability even in droughty years, beekeepers replace natural bee food sources (pollen, nectar) with alternative food recipes based on energy syrups and protein flour, which determines certain consequences on the overall status of bee colonies and implicitly on their productions. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of feeding with energy and energy-protein sources on food consumption and body weight of caged honeybees, during a 30 days period. Food consumption recorded the highest values for bees that received only energy feed, and the lowest values for those with energy-protein feed. Regarding to energy food, honey consumption recorded higher values than those of energy syrup consumption. The introducing of protein substances into food recipes (especially pollen substitutes) has led to an increase in the bee's body weight first, while in the last period this suddenly recorded lower values than those of bees fed only with energy food recipes; this could be due to the elimination of intestinal content.https://spasb.ro/index.php/public_html/article/view/1000caged honeybeesfood consumptionweight |
| spellingShingle | Dan Eșanu Ioan Mircea Pop Daniel Simeanu The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies caged honeybees food consumption weight |
| title | The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees |
| title_full | The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees |
| title_fullStr | The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees |
| title_short | The Influence of Some Supplementary Feeds on Food Consumption and Body Weight of Caged Honeybees |
| title_sort | influence of some supplementary feeds on food consumption and body weight of caged honeybees |
| topic | caged honeybees food consumption weight |
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