SELECTION OF QUEENS BY IMPLANTATION WITH THE SEMI-CONTROLLED METHOD OF BREEDING MALES FROM SELECTED SOCIETIES

Nusmir RAMADANI, Hrisula KIPRIJANOVSKA, Dashmir MAMUTI, Nesim SEFERI

Abstract

The study of the selection of local queens, with the semi-controlled method, is very easy to apply due to the conditions required by the isolated selection as well as the laboratory one. The results of several years of study are very satisfying. We have created a quality queen that fulfils our needs in terms of yield flow, the instinct of keeping the swarm inside the bee box, reducing the aggressively of the bees, and its hygiene. Due to the natural and climatic conditions of our territory, it is necessary to cultivate the local queen as much as possible. In North Macedonia, this queen is protected by law and is called "Apis Mellifera Makedonika". The cultivation of this queen in our territory brings yield. Our queen winters well and in the spring develops about the flow of nature. When needed, it saves food until nature has an abundant flow for it to develop to its maximum. In this semi-controlled method, we mostly worked with the selection of beetles from selected societies. As a queen is bred with many beetles, she receives genes from all of them, which must be of good quality, so that the offspring will be of better quality. The selection of bees is a complicated process because the breeding of a queen takes place during the flight in the air while the beekeeper cannot influence it. Therefore, emphasis should be placed on the addition of selected beetles to increase the likelihood that the queen will be fertilized by the selected beetles. So far, our results are very satisfying. Selection in beekeeping proceeds in slow steps, so results are seen after a few years when a higher percentage of desirable parameters are achieved.

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