USING THE FOREWING CHARACTERISTICS TO DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE CARNIOLAN HONEYBEES REARED IN EGYPT.

Mazeed,, A. M. M.; Haggag, E. I.; Omar, M. S.

doi:10.21608/jppp.2004.240018

USING THE FOREWING CHARACTERISTICS TO DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE CARNIOLAN HONEYBEES REARED IN EGYPT.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

² Department of Bee Research, Plant Protection Research Institute, Dokki, Egypt

10.21608/jppp.2004.240018

Abstract

Twenty five samples of Carniolan bees were collected from each of two
isolated areas used for breeding Carniolan bees in Egypt, Manzala and New Valley.
Thirty one characters on the right forewing of collected bees were chosen for
differentiation and classification the bees in the two locations. Suitable scanner
connected with a computer were used. After displaying the image of the wings on the
monitor, and by using a suitable measuring program the characters of the forewing
were determined as polar coordinate points. Using discriminant analysis as statistical
tool, the two populations could be significantly differentiated from each other, and the
bees in each location could be classified correctly to its group with classification rate
of 92.84% and 88.84% for bees in New Valley and Manzala, respectively. The results
obtained indicated that there was a great differences in forewing characters between
the two populations, which could be help in setting a suitable cross breeding program
between them for improving honeybees in Egypt.