Effect of the starter method and the origin of Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera L., 1758) larvae in mini-hives for royal jelly production

Authors

  • Leonardo Lucas Baumgratz Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agrícola, Piracicaba, SP
  • Luís Carlos Marchini Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agrícola, Piracicaba, SP
  • Augusta Carolina de Camargo Carmello Moreti Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Instituto de Zootecnia, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Zootecnia Diversificada, Nova Odessa, SP

Keywords:

Africanized honey bees, royal jelly, starter, sister larvae, no-sister larvae

Abstract

The present work was carried out with the objective of evaluating the larvae acceptance and the royal jelly production using the starter method for production with Africanized honey bees in comparison with the Doolittle ones. It was, still, evaluated the acceptance and royal jelly production using the larvae originating from of the same beehive (sister larvae) in comparison with the one of another beehive (no-sister larvae). The starter method consists of removing the group of the two superior nuclei (in the last nucleus are the grafted larvae) and to put on a bottom, in front of the inferior nucleus. After 24 hours of the division, returning the group to the original position. During this time the superior nucleus, that were in front of the inferior ones, receive most of the forage bee ones, being without the queen, that is in the inferior nucleus. The crop of the royal jelly was accomplished 72 hours after the larvae transfers, being evaluated, still, the larvae acceptance. By the obtained results it can be concluded that the larvae acceptance in the "starter" method of real jelly production in mini-hive increases in the same proportion of the total production of royal jelly, although the averages in the processes "starter" and Doolittle don€™t present significant differences among themselves. The origin of the grafted larvae (sisters or no-sisters) doesn€™t influence the acceptance or the royal jelly production in beehives of Africanized honey bees.

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Published

2013-11-29

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Section

FORAGE CROPS AND PASTURES

How to Cite

Effect of the starter method and the origin of Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera L., 1758) larvae in mini-hives for royal jelly production. (2013). Bulletin of Animal Husbandry, 59(1), 71-77. http://35.198.24.243/index.php/bia/article/view/1375

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