Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods
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Resumo: | This study aimed to investigate the ideal brood area to be introduced for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies, considering variations in the hive's internal ambience. Therefore, eight colonies were equipped with data loggers for recording variations in temperature and humidity inside the hives. Then, these colonies were split in four treatments involving the swapping of four, three, two and one brood comb between strong and weak colonies. Growth in the amount of brood and food stores to the four colony strengthening treatments was assessed counting the comb cells to record changes in the brood and food area. The colonies tended to restore their normal thermoregulation within four hours after they had been manipulated and the hive cover had been closed, which quickly increased brood area in the receiving colonies. Results showed that adding up to three brood combs constitute an important alternative for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies because it did not interfere with nest thermoregulation, speeded up population growth in weak colonies and did not affect the development of strong colonies. |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broodscolony homeostasisthermal comfortcolony managementThis study aimed to investigate the ideal brood area to be introduced for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies, considering variations in the hive's internal ambience. Therefore, eight colonies were equipped with data loggers for recording variations in temperature and humidity inside the hives. Then, these colonies were split in four treatments involving the swapping of four, three, two and one brood comb between strong and weak colonies. Growth in the amount of brood and food stores to the four colony strengthening treatments was assessed counting the comb cells to record changes in the brood and food area. The colonies tended to restore their normal thermoregulation within four hours after they had been manipulated and the hive cover had been closed, which quickly increased brood area in the receiving colonies. Results showed that adding up to three brood combs constitute an important alternative for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies because it did not interfere with nest thermoregulation, speeded up population growth in weak colonies and did not affect the development of strong colonies.Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola2013-10-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162013000500002Engenharia Agrícola v.33 n.5 2013reponame:Engenharia Agrícolainstname:Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola (SBEA)instacron:SBEA10.1590/S0100-69162013000500002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBrasil,Daniel de F.Guimarães,Michelle de O.Barbosa Filho,José Antonio D.Freitas,Breno M.eng2013-11-21T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0100-69162013000500002Revistahttp://www.engenhariaagricola.org.br/ORGhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phprevistasbea@sbea.org.br||sbea@sbea.org.br1809-44300100-6916opendoar:2013-11-21T00:00Engenharia Agrícola - Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola (SBEA)false |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods Brasil,Daniel de F. colony homeostasis thermal comfort colony management |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
title_full |
Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Internal ambience of bee colonies submitted to strengthening management by adding broods |
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Brasil,Daniel de F. |
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Brasil,Daniel de F. Guimarães,Michelle de O. Barbosa Filho,José Antonio D. Freitas,Breno M. |
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Guimarães,Michelle de O. Barbosa Filho,José Antonio D. Freitas,Breno M. |
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Brasil,Daniel de F. Guimarães,Michelle de O. Barbosa Filho,José Antonio D. Freitas,Breno M. |
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colony homeostasis thermal comfort colony management |
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colony homeostasis thermal comfort colony management |
description |
This study aimed to investigate the ideal brood area to be introduced for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies, considering variations in the hive's internal ambience. Therefore, eight colonies were equipped with data loggers for recording variations in temperature and humidity inside the hives. Then, these colonies were split in four treatments involving the swapping of four, three, two and one brood comb between strong and weak colonies. Growth in the amount of brood and food stores to the four colony strengthening treatments was assessed counting the comb cells to record changes in the brood and food area. The colonies tended to restore their normal thermoregulation within four hours after they had been manipulated and the hive cover had been closed, which quickly increased brood area in the receiving colonies. Results showed that adding up to three brood combs constitute an important alternative for strengthening Apis mellifera colonies because it did not interfere with nest thermoregulation, speeded up population growth in weak colonies and did not affect the development of strong colonies. |
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