Researches Regarding the Testing of Bee Family Resistance to Bee Brood Diseases

Abstract

In this work, we tested the resistance of bee families to young bee diseases. The researches were carried out in two apiaries from Timişoara and Comoraste, Caras-Severin County. The biological material was consisted of 10 bee families belonging to the species Apis mellifica carpatica, distributed in two experimental variants of 5 families, with almost equal power. During this experiment, we assessed the degree of cleaning and removing of the young bees that died of freezing. Successive to the researches performed, in all the three controls we observed significant differences, from a statistical viewpoint (p<0.05) between the two experimental variants, regarding the number of cells with removed dead young bees.

Keywords

• testing
• bee family resistance
• bee brood diseases