Study of productivity indices of Carpathian bees

Abstract

The scientific paper presents the results of the productivity indices of Carpathian bees. The honey production is among the main indicators according to which the selection in beekeeping is done. The selection of high-productive valuable colonies and their reproduction are of scientific and practical interest. It was found that during the active season, using pastoral beekeeping, from the valuable bee colonies with local queens were obtained, on average, 101.36 kg of honey, from those with Carpathian queens imported from abroad – 103.20 kg and from colonies with queens of the first generation F1 (♀ import + ♂ local) - 104.5 kg. Under the action of the heterosis effect, in the colonies with first generation F1 queens (♀ imported + ♂ local) the viability of the bees increased, due to this fact, their colonies collected 1.26% more honey than the maternal forms and by 3.1% compared to the paternal ones. There were obtained 350.626 kg of honey from 350 bee colony or, on average, 64.64 kg from each fcolony at the apiary in Seliste village, Nisporeni district during 2019.