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Performance of honey bee (Apis mellifera) on toria (Brassics rapa var napus) under mid-hill subhumid zone of Himachal Pradesh

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Title Performance of honey bee (Apis mellifera) on toria (Brassics rapa var napus) under mid-hill subhumid zone of Himachal Pradesh
 
Creator SRIVASTAVA, S
CHANDEL, Y S
KUMAR, ARUN
KASHYAP, N P
KUMAR, ASHWANI
 
Subject honey-bee performance, Apis mellifora, toria, Brassica rapa var napus
 
Description Performance of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) was studied on toria [Brassica rapa (L.) Thell. emend. Matzger var napus L.; syn B. campestris L. ssp oleifera (Metzger) Sinsk. var toria ] in mid - hill subhumid zone of Himachal Pradesh. This bee species was unable to store surplus honey. Instead, colonies at the end of flowering were found to decrease in strength (37.6%) and brood realing slowed down (71.5%) when compared with flower-initiation stage of the crop. Low temperature during flowering period of the crop leading to supressed activity and less nectar load/bee were found the causes of poor performance by this bee species.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2013-05-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/30068
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 67, No 10 (1997)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/30068/13570
 
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