FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF WESTERN HONEY BEE (APIS MELL/FERA) IN DIFFERENT TIME INTERVALS ON BRASS/CA CAMPESTRIS L.
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| Title: | FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF WESTERN HONEY BEE (APIS MELL/FERA) IN DIFFERENT TIME INTERVALS ON BRASS/CA CAMPESTRIS L. |
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| Authors: | Khan, Khalid Ali1,2,3, Bashir, Muhammad Amjad4 abashir@gudgk.edu.pk, Mahmood, Rashid5, Qadir, Ziyad Abdul5, Rafiq, Khalid5, Khan, Muhammad Hamza1, Saleh, Muhammad1, Hashmi, Muhammad Sadiq6,7, Gulshan, Allah Bakhsh8, Ahmad, Zubair1,2,9, AI-Solami, Habeeb Mansour A.10, Ghramh, Hamed A.1,2,3 |
| Source: | Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. Mar2021, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p2607-2612. 6p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Pollinators, Foraging behavior, Honeybees, Bee pollen, Wind pressure, Brass, Honey plants |
| Abstract: | The pollen foraging shows a collective approach by honeybees belonging to a colony which organize and carefully regulate it with the passage of time. The comparative amounts of larval brood and stored pollen in the hive closely correlated with the pollen requirement of a honeybee colony. Intercrop, diversity and average number of visiting pollinators contributed positively to the fruit weight and fruit quality. The flight activity of honey bees is greatly subjective to the weather and flow conditions along with the strength of colony and the number of foraging bees. Weather conditions usually depend on the wind intensity, air temperature and wind force. The situation of flow relies on diurnal flowering pattern, nectar and the pollen output alongside the combination of these aspects. The observation included following steps i.e. installing pollen traps at the entrance of the hive, recording number of pollen carrier bees returning to the hive, calculating quantity of bee pollen collected in the pollen trap trays and weighing the total weight of pollen collected by the hive, calculating the Visitation Rate (number of flowers visited by pollinators in one minute), Visitation Frequency (number of pollinators visit one plant per minute) and Pollinator Diversity ( different pollinators found during 5 minutes visit of field). Apis mellifera entering in the hives with pollens at the different time intervals of8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 1400 and 16:00 hours for five minutes. The highest number of bees entering in the hives were at 12:00 hours showing the average value of 73.2. The starting and ending time period i.e. 08:00, 10:00, 14:00 and 16:00 shows lower average value of 14.6, 30.3, 66.4 and 28.6 respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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