Studies on Biological Development of Hybrid Bees Families

Abstract

It has made a study concerning the biological development of hybrid bee’s families (Italian x Carpathian) comparative with Carpathian bee’s families. The bees were housed in multi-storey hives. The following parameters were studied: the queen bee prolificacy, the flight intensity during harvesting, the flight intensity during bad weather the irascibility, the behaviour of the bees during the survey and the predisposition to swarming. At the hybrid families, queen bee prolificacy and the rate of old bee’s replacement were significantly higher (p≤0.01). In terms of the flight intensity during bad weather and the swarming instinct, were not found significant differences (p≥0.05).

Keywords

• biological evolution
• hybrid bees