Ahmed J. M. AL-Shammary(¹) Hikmat K. Jassem(¹) Haithim A. Saeid*(¹) and Ahmed S. Sajit(¹)
(1). Integrated Pest Control Center, Directorate of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Science and Technology. Baghdad, Iraq.
(*Corresponding author : Dr. Ahmed Saeid. E-Mail: ahmedalshammary90@yahoo.com)
Received: 17/03/2020 Accepted: 12/06/2020
Abstract
The perception of advantages of honey bee Apis mellifera to humans is the important reason to keep searching in this field, this study has led to finding out some effects of the use of gingerextract with feeding bees on some biological aspects of queen bees Apis mellifera which artificially fertilized. The results showed that the use of gingerextract, especially treatment T6 (1 volume of feeding mixture number 1 + 1 volume of feeding mixture number 3). It was noticed a significant increase in the total area of honey, brood and pollen collection which reached 8072, 12180 and 9617 square inch respectively, besides increasing of productive age of queen bees which artificially fertilized reached 138.3 days .
Key words: Ginger, Queen bees, Artificial fertilization, Productive age.