Comparison of colony performances of honeybee (Apis Mellifera L.) housed in hives made of different materials

Figures & data

Table 1. The effect of wooden, polystyrene and insulated hive types on some behavioral characteristics with colony performance parameters of honey bees.

	Wooden hive			Polystyrene hive			Insulated hive
	Mean	p Value	SEM	Mean	p Values	SEM	Mean	p Value	SEM
Development of honeybee colonies (pieces frame/colony)
June	9			9			9
July	17.97^b	.00	0.19	20.18^b	.00	0.33	21.28^b	.00	0.45
August	24.03^c	.00	0.48	25.72^c	.00	0.38	27.02^c	.00	0.626
Mean	16.43^a	.30	1.04	18.30^a	.30	1.31	19.10^a	.30	1.418
Development of brood area (sealed brood/cm^2)
June	3195.60^a	.00	42.39	3222.40^a	.00	53.21	3393.40^a	.00	36.58
July	5545.50^c	.00	59.75	6913.50^c	.00	37.10	7228.10^c	.00	74.61
August	4283.67^b	.00	47.22	5032.70^b	.00	32.07	5529.50^b	.00	75.31
Mean	4341.67^a	.12	180.50	5056.20^a^,^b	.13	280.81	5383.67^b	.64	293.56
Weight gain of the application groups (kg/colony)
	34.86^a	.00	0.48	41.75^b	.00	0.46	53.40^c	.00	0.79
Number of outgoing honeybees
	80.95^a	.00	1.60	93.15^b	.00	1.58	103.62^c	.00	2.49
Honey yield (kg/colony)
	17.08^a	.07	0.61	20.17^a^,^b	.07	0.92	23.04^b	.09	1.17
The number of bee sting of the honeybee colonies in the application groups
	3.04^a	.18	0.26	4.05^b	.59	0.25	3.69^a^,^b	.18	0.25
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Maximum and minimum temperature and humidity values in the hive
Max. temperature (^oC)	38.61^b	.00	0.11	33.90^a	.49	0.20	34.24^a	.49	0.28
Min temperature (^oC)	20.10^a	.00	0.26	24.97^b	.81	0.14	24.82^b	.81	0.11
Max humidity (%)	55.72^a	.00	0.75	66.94^c	.00	0.71	61.41^b	.00	0.84
Min humidity (%)	24.69^a	.00	0.27	37.29^c	.00	0.56	29.99^b	.00	0.51

SEM: standard error of mean.

^a,b,cp<.05.

Figure 1. The temperature values of the apiary.

Figure 2. The relative humidity values of the apiary during the season, 2018.