Evaluación de abejas reinas mediante diferentes tipos de obtención en el cantón Morona

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate the biological behavior of queen bees by different types of procurement. We analyzed queen cell acceptance and implantation, queen cell length (cm), queen cell diameter (cm), queen bee hatched (#), queen bee weight (g), queen bee length (cm), queen bee abdomen length (cm), queen bee abdomen length (cm), queen bee abdomen diameter (cm). This project was developed under an unbalanced completely randomized block design with 3 treatments (Doolittle, Miller and Traditional method), eight replicates per treatment and one experimental unit, giving a total of 24 real cells, less than one month. The data were subjected to the separation of means according to Tukey (P<0.05) to find the differences between means of the treatments. It was possible to determine that there were significant differences in the variables total length of the queen bee and length of the abdomen, while for the other variables there was no statistical significance; however, there were numerical differences. The treatment (T1) Doolittle method had better results in terms of acceptance and implantation of queen cups (8), queen cell length (2.30 cm), queen cell diameter (1.31 cm), queen bees hatched (8), queen weight hatched (0.17 gr), total length (1.88 cm), abdomen length (1.05 cm), abdomen diameter (0.43cm), while the Miller method is the least efficient. It is recommended to producers to consider the artificial method for large scale production and the traditional or Miller method for small scale production.