Zoohygienic assessment of carbohydrate feeds - an important component of beekeeping technology

Abstract

Feeding hygiene in beekeeping solves the problems of the quantity and quality of feed, increasing its usefulness, as well as monitoring the quality of feed and feed base. Providing bee colonies with a sufficient amount of carbohydrate feed of proper quality is an important component of beekeeping technology, especially in the natural and climatic conditions of the middle taiga subzone, where the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is located on the edge of the natural habitat. Noncompliance with food hygiene in such conditions dramatically reduces the adaptive capabilities of the bee organism, and can be considered as the main reason for reducing the resistance of the organism of beneficial insects. In the article, the authors touched upon the problems of hygiene of carbohydrate nutrition of honey bees, showed the possibility and real implementation of the implementation of a full-fledged carbohydrate diet in the conditions of the North-West of Russia. Carbohydrate feeds and nutrition are considered by the authors as factors determining the normal functioning of all systems of the bee organism and a means of preventing feed toxicosis.