BEE HONEY QUALITY ACCORDING TO HONEY BEE COLONY PERFORMANCE | ||||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 33, Issue 5, May 2008, Page 3665-3675 PDF (648.78 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2008.217958 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| A. M. Elbassiouny,1; M. A. Abdul Rahman2; M. I. Abdel-Megeed1; M. M. Salama3 | ||||
| 1Plant Protec., Dept. Fac. of Agric., Ain Shams Univ., Shoubra EL-Kheima, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Pediatric Dept., Fac. of Medicine, Ain Shams Univ., EL-Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 3Scientific Missions Sector, Ministry of Higher Education, Cairo,Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Three types of bee honey were performed: 1st floral honey (bees rehoused on empty combs); the 2nd non floral honey (bees rehoused on empty combs and fed on sugar syrup 50% only) and the 3rd common honey (the colonies were left undisturbed as its same status and fed on sugar syrup 50% in dearth periods). Fifteen free flying honey bee colonies relatively similar strength headed with open mated local Carnica queens, Apis mellifera carnica, were divided into three groups (five colonies each). During the season of 2006, the colonies were prepared at the apiary of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt then transferred to its direction (1st & 3rd groups to clover field at El Mehala, Gharbia Governorate and the 2nd group to screen green house at the Faculty of Agriculture, AinShamsUniversity). The data showed that the extracted floral (monofloral) honey recorded an average of 1.130 ± 0.630 kg / colony and the colonies were decreased by 12% in strength (number of combs covered with adult bees) and 21.3% for the number of brood cells. The extracted non-floral honey averaged 2.466 ± 0.586 kg / colony and the reduction of colony strength and the brood cells reached to 32 % and 53.1%, respectively. The common (heterofloral) honey recorded high rates reached to 5.266 ± 0.919 kg / colony, moreover the colony strength and the number of brood cells also increased by about 36% and 52.2%, respectively. The Physicochemical properties of floral (monofloral), non-floral and common (heterofloral) honey showed that the specific gravity recorded 1.412, 1.424 and 1.417 respectively. The viscosity was 36.4, 69.0 and 48.1 poise, respectively. The electrical conductivity recorded 2.6, 0.6 and 1.9 (×10-4) S/cm, respectively. The moisture percentage recorded 18.5, 17.0 and 18.0 %, respectively. The PH values were 3.6, 3.2 and 4.1, respectively. The free acidity of tested honey types being 20.4, 18.2 and 32.2 milliequ / kg, respectively. The values of Lacton recorded 7.2, 1.2 and 5.6 milliequ / kg, respectively. The values for reducing sugars recorded 74, 61 and 69%, respectively, whereas in case of non-reducing sugar it was 3.3, 19.2 and 9.5%, respectively. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| honey bee - Apis mellifera; honey; physicochemical | ||||
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