Compositional profile of food supplements for honeybees

  • Chaabane, Ines
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Publication date
January 2020

Abstract

Mestrado de dupla diplomação com a Université Libre de TunisHoneybees (Apis mellifera L.) are the main pollinating agents for numerous plants and fruit trees and, hence, play a key role in agriculture and more generally in the maintenance of ecological biodiversity. Like the most of organisms, honeybees need a diverse diet consisting of minerals, carbohydrates (sugars), fats, and amino acids (proteins) to survive and reproduce. An adult honey bees carbohydrate requirement is satisfied by the nectar produced in flowers and also occasionally from extra floral nectarines or honeydew secreted by plant-feeding insects, while, flower pollen is the main source of amino acids, protein building blocks, largely used to feed developing larvae ...

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