Studying the effect of feeding honey bees with natural materials and pollen supplements on the chemical composition and amino acid ratio in the worker body

Abstract

Nutritional and chemical experiments were conducted on honey bee workers (Apis mellifera L.) in the apiary of the College of Agriculture / Tikrit University for the period from January to April 2022. The percentage of moisture content and chitin in the water treatment amounted to 68.27% and 46.81% respectively, and the treatment of pollen, honey and palm pollen was superior to the protein content in the body of the works, which amounted to 48.68%, while the fats gave the treatment of pollen, honey and palm pollen the highest percentage, which amounted to 10.28. It showed the effect of feeding with natural nutrients on the chemical content, as the water treatment recorded the highest percentage in moisture content and the percentage of chitin, which amounted to 7.15%, 58.70%, and the treatment (sugar solution + spirulina) and the treatment (sugar solution + Ganoderma lacidum + spirulina) recorded the highest percentage in fats. It reached 7.23%, which gave the highest percentage of protein, reaching 56.11%. As for the effect of the feeding materials with pollen supplements on the percentage of amino acids in the bodies of workers. The (pollen + honey) treatment gave the highest percentage of cysteine ​​acid, which amounted to 5.32%, and the treatment (pollen + protein + vitamins) gave the highest percentage of lysine acid, which amounted to 5.78%, and the treatment (pollen + honey + protein) was superior in the percentage of Tryptophan acid, which amounted to 6.22%, and the treatment of (pollen + honey + palm pollen) gave the highest percentage of histidine acid, which amounted to 5.87%, while the control treatment excelled in giving the highest percentage of vatoline acid, which amounted to 4.23%. As for the effect of feeding with natural foodstuffs, treatment (sugar solution) gave the highest percentage in fultine acid, which amounted to 5.07%, and treatment (sugar solution + Ganoderma lacidum) gave the highest percentage of lysine acid, which amounted to 5.05%, and treatment (Ganoderma lacidum + spirulina) gave the highest percentage of acid Lysine was 5%, and the treatment of sugar solution and reishi mushroom gave the highest percentage of cysteine, which amounted to 5.01%, and the comparison treatment (water only) gave the highest percentage of lysine and tryptophan, which amounted to 5%.