Describe production system and measurement the Hygienic behavior of local honeybee in Aljabal Alakhder and Benghazi area, Libya

Abstract

The aim of the study is to describe the production system and measure the hygienic behaviour of sixty outcrossing hives of the local honey bee in the Aljabal Alakhder and Benghazi areas. Therefore, 131 beekeepers were interviewed and filled out a questionnaire for a production system. The out-crossing experiment was created in collaboration with two beekeepers from Tokra and Gardena. Sixty hives were divided into four groups, and then Measuring the hygienic behaviour by using a needle to kill the larvae stage and geometric shape to give 100 hexagonal eyes (10 * 10) from the brood. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA test proportion by SPSS software. The study showed that a third of the beekeepers started rearing honey bees with a small number of hives, less than ten hives, they also prefer local bees and well as eighty seven percent of beekeepers rearing queens from the same apiary, and fifty percent of them select queens by colour, and mating occurs randomly. Sixty-four percent used artificial warming to increase the number of hives. Varoa, and Nosema, were the main diseases of the beekeepers and the honey production was low ranging from 50 to 300 kg per year. The hygienic behaviour of sixty hives was height, and there is no significant difference between all groups. Improvement of honey production could be through increased diversity in the begging, establishing queens, selection and avoiding inbreeding.