Morphometric variations and behavour of the melliferous bee (Apis mellifere) in different height levels in the ecuadorean mountain range.
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bees, beehive, morphometric registers, sanitary behavior.Abstract
In the central zone of the ecuadorean mountain range was evaluated the effect of the different height levels in morphometric registers (cell size, coloration of bees) and behaviors (sanitation behavour and defensive) of the Apis mellifera. For this evaluation three samplings were done in the months of March, June, and September of 2017 in beekeeping of the provinces of Tungurahua (6) and Chimborazo (10) in each of them were selected the 5 more productive beehives. The descriptive statistics and comparisons were used for making variance analysis. The smallest size of cell (p ?0.05) was found in the apiaries located 2720 meters above sea level (5.1/5 cm); meanwhile for the coloration, bees with 2 and 3 yellow segments are prevalent in all the heights while dark bees were located at the height of 3200 meters above sea level. Sanitation behavior showed differences only for the first sampling with 85.5% in 2 850 meters above sea level. The defensive behavior didn`t differ in the different heights evaluated with an average of 14.34 sting in one minute. According to these results, the effect of height is important in variables like the size of cell, coloration and sanitary behavior, therefore all of these aspects maybe will be associated to possible effects of free pairings accommodation to the environmental conditions and the process of africanizacion. There is a necessity to complement these studies with geometrical morphometric and genetically studies of DNA mitochondrial for obtaining the maternal descent.
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