Table 2.
Amounts of proteinic diets consumed during nursing period of honeybee workers.
| No. | Treatments | Means of proteinic diet amount consumed by honeybee workers (gm/100 bees/3 days) |
General means | % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-days old | 6-days old | 9-days old | 12-days old | 15-days old | ||||
| 1 | Bee bread | 1.9500±0.3109c,b | 3.0250 ± 0.3594a | 1.3750 ± 0.1708f,e | 1.3250 ± 0.3096g,f,e | 0.6250 ± 0.1708i,h | 1.6600 ± 0.8580A | |
| 2 | Pollen loads + sugar (1:1) | 2.9650 ± 0.7411a | 2.2250 ± 0.1258b | 1.2750 ± 0.0957g,f,e | 1.2000 ± 0.0817g,f,e | 0.9000 ± 0,1633h,g | 1.7150 ± 0.8493A | 3.31% |
| 3 | Nectapol® | 1.9250 ± 0.2872c,b | 1.8750 ± 0.2872d,c,b | 0.9500 ± 0.1291h,g,f | 1.2500 ± 0.1291g,f,e | 0.1750 ± 0.0957j | 1.2350 ± 0.6877B | 25.6% |
| 4 | Yeast, Gluten, Sugar (1:1:2) | 1.5750 ± 0.3096 e,d,c | 1.2500 ± 0.2887 g,f,e | 0.9975 ± 0.6424h,g,f | 1.1750 ± 0.1708g,f,e | 0.3500 ± 0.1291j,i | 1.0695 ± 0.5232B | 35.57% |
| 5 | Traditional substitute | 1.4750 ± 0.2500e,d | 1.000 ± 0.1633 h,g,f | 0.7000 ± 0.2160 i,h | 0.3000 ± 0.0817j,i | 0.1250 ± 0.0500j | 0.7200 ± 0.5207C | 56.63% |
Means marked with different letters significantly differ at 5% level of probability.