Pengaruh umur lebah ratu, jumlah sisiran eram, dan penyekat ratu terhadap pertambahan bobot anggota koloni lebah Apis mellifera

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  • Mohammad Junus Fakultas Peternakan Universitas Brawijaya

Abstract

The aim of this study was to discover the influence of queen age, the number of brood combs and queen excluder on colony weight during the flowering (blossome) season. A trial nested design was employed with 3 replications on 36 colonies. Artificial queens were used, those aged 3 months (R3), 6 month (R2) and 1 year (R1) were placed in colonies, consisting of 5 brood combs (S1), 3 brood combs (S2) together with queen excluder (P1) and without queen excluder (P2). After 6 months the colonies were examined.
The results show that there was a significant increase in colony weights over the flowering season (P<0.01), and that this was influenced by queen age, R3, R1 and R2 namely 2116.16±90.150, 1874.08±77.962 dan 1832.42± 96.640 g respectively, whereas for the use of queen excluder, P1(S1), P1(S2), P2(S2) dan P2(S1), it was 2227.85±75.267, 2126.78±64.911, 1754.89 ± 87.341 and 1654.04 ± 65.263 g respectively. And without noting colony weights at start of the flowering season, by the end of the flowerin season the comulative colony weight increase with queen excluder was higtly significant (P<0.01), where colony weigth for P1(S1), P1(S2), P2(S2) and P2(S1) were 2295.89±92.253, 2126.67±94.281, 1689.33±111.980 dan 1651.67± 101.393 g respectively. Whereas the effect of queen age on colony weight increase was also higtly significant (P<0.01) the enfluence of queen age on relatively colony weigths was R3, R1 and R2 were 587.05±27.435, 499.33±24.565 dan 497.59±35.398 % respectively. However, queen excluder P1(S1), P1(S2), P2(S2) dan P2(S1) were 616.60 ±33.061, 585.61±20.241, 474.33±29.952 dan 435.42 ± 20.692 % respectively.
Conclusion, queens aged 3 month, using queen excluder and a maximum of 5 brood combs gave the best results. Its is recomended that to got optimum colony weigth the above management system should be used
Key word: Queen bee age, the number of comb, queen excluder, brood, honey pollen, and farmer

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2012-09-25

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Junus, M. (2012). Pengaruh umur lebah ratu, jumlah sisiran eram, dan penyekat ratu terhadap pertambahan bobot anggota koloni lebah Apis mellifera. Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Peternakan (Indonesian Journal of Animal Science), 21(3), 1–10. Retrieved from https://jiip.ub.ac.id/index.php/jiip/article/view/109

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Vol. 21 No. 3 (2011)

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