A avaliação da produção de abelhas rainhas africanizadas em diferentes tipos de cúpulas

Abstract

The objective was to evaluate the acceptance of larvae in different types of cups, the emergence of queens and the morphometric measurements of virgin queens of Africanized Apis mellifera honeybees produced from the transfer of larvae to different types of domes. 1-day-old larvae were transferred and randomly distributed to acrylic and wax cups, the cups contained royal jelly and royal jelly diluted with distilled water being 1:1. After the transfer of the larvae, the frames were returned to the hives in the experimental apiary to assess the acceptance by the workers, after 3 days of transfer, the acceptance of the larvae by the workers of the hive was verified and later, 10 days later, all the formed cells were caged until emergence. After emergence, virgin queens were anesthetized using carbon dioxide to be weighed and measured. In experiment 1, it was observed that the wax cups had better results for head length, thorax length, wing length, wing width, abdomen length and abdomen width, but these results did not influence body weight measurements. and chest width. In experiment 2, better results were observed for the acrylic cups in the measurements of body weight, head length, head width, thorax length, thorax width, wing length, wing width and abdomen length, however these results did not influence the measurements of abdomen width.