Producción de reinas fecundadas (Apis mellifera) y evaluación hasta la postura

Abstract

The objective of this work was to produce fertilized Queens (apis mellifera) and to evaluate up to posture in the queen bee hatchery at RINCÓN ANDINO Apicultural Company, located in Jatari Campesino Community, belonging to Calpi Rural Parish, Chimborazo Province. Sixty traslarve domes were used, which were distributed in three groups of 20 domes. For fertilization, nuclei were used depending on the number of Queens born. The experimental groups consisted of: group 1: sugar syrup + eucalyptus leaf (flavoring); group 2: sugar syrup + cedron (flavoring); group 3: sugar syrup + White onion (flavoring). Since this was a descriptive, cross-sectional, observational study, descriptive statistics were applied for the analysis and processing od the data. The experimental measurements were the following: number of capsules traslarved, number of capsules accepted, percentage of capsules accepted, percentages of Queens born alive, estimation of queen laying percentage and production cost per queen. Traslarve efficiency is better in g3 (sugar syrup + White onion) with 89,0 %, followed by group 1 (sugar syrup + eucalyptus leaf) with 55,0 % and group 2 (sugar syrup + cedron) with 62,0 %. It was recommended to continue producing queens bees with good productive and reproductive qualities, which produce strong worker bees, high in production, docile, resistant to diseases and little swarming.