Social behavior between Apis mellifera and Tetragonisca angustula bees
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Jatai, Colony, Coexistence, HarmonyAbstract
Bees are insects of great use to man, live in harmony with nature and are the main pollinators of floral species, being the main responsible for the production of food on the planet. The species Apis mellifera L. and Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille, 1811) have production capacity that can be commercialized, but created in different ways, with their own hives developed for each species. Due to this fact, there was an interest in researching whether these species of similar social lives could live harmoniously in the same hive. The research was carried out with the objective of evaluating the social life among A. mellifera and T. angustula bees. The experiment used ten hives of A. mellifera with an estimated population of approximately 20,000 bees, with a nest and a hedgehog with an excluding screen. Five frames were removed from the melgueira and a swarm of Jataí bees (T. angustula) was introduced into the frame space with a population assessment of approximately 1,000 bees. Six months after the preparation of the hives, the sociability between the studied species and the evolution of the prepared swarms were evaluated, considering the amount of food stored, the estimated number of bees and the space reserved for each swarm. The data extracted from the research show that the bees A. mellifera and T. angustula can live harmoniously in the same space, without interference between the swarms.
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