EFFECT OF SOME FOOD ADDITIVES ON WORKERS AND QUEENS OF HONEY BEE (Apis mellifera L.) | ||||
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||||
Article 7, Volume 1, Issue 12, December 2010, Page 1013-1021 PDF (384.81 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2010.86967 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
W. Kh. Elaidy1; A. A. Ebeid1; H. M. Fathy2; S. Z.A. Salama1 | ||||
1Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt | ||||
2Economic Entomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Three different artificial diets containing gluten, black seed oil or vitamins were tested for their effects on midgut of honey bee nurse worker and some morphological queen parameters. There were large increases in size and number of columnar epithelial, regenerative cells and peritrophic membrane in case of vitamins and gluten fed workers. Black seed oil fed workers had slight effects compared with those fed on sugar syrup. Vitamins and gluten increased virgin queens emergence percents, body weight, abdominal length and width, number of ovarioles and ovary length and width. | ||||
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