Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable Meliponiculture
The stingless bee rearing is emergent agriculture activity in Malaysia. The stingless bee products including honey and bee bread, which are stored in propolis-rich pots. The activities of stingless bee rearing are referred to as meliponiculture and it is a crucial activity that encourages the cons...
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| author | Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Muhammad Arjuna Yusof, Norizam Sulaiman, Siti Amrah |
| author2 | Hassan, Ahmad Sanusi |
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| description | The stingless bee rearing is emergent agriculture activity in Malaysia. The stingless bee products
including honey and bee bread, which are stored in propolis-rich pots. The activities of stingless bee
rearing are referred to as meliponiculture and it is a crucial activity that encourages the conservation of
stingless bees and helping to reduce deforestation due to feral stingless bee colony hunting. Here, we
studied direct and indirect hiving method of the feral stingless bee colony into a newly innovative hive
called Mustafa-Hive. In the hive, the brood was placed into a split-able throne as a brood chamber and
inserted into an air-jacketed palace as an insulation chamber. The honey cassette was used on the hive
to induce a monolayer honey pot formation. Findings have shown that all broods in an indirect hiving
module provide cleaner broods from the sawdust compared to the direct hiving process. Indiriect hiving
gave 100% colony viability and supported by noteworthy yield pot formations in the honeycassette.
Findings also showed an average of 4.5ml honey were extracted from each pot to produce an average
of 99ml and 256.5ml honey at week 2 and week 4 for every hive, respectively. As conclusion, the
indirect hiving method and the use of Mustafa-hive ensures colony survival and induced formation of
monolayer honey pots. Thus this hiving module encourage for sustainable meliponiculture, enables for
absolute and hygienic honey extractions from honey cassette which could indirectly promote the
development of the stingless bee industry |
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| spelling | usm-380552017-12-21T07:36:00Z http://eprints.usm.my/38055/ Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable Meliponiculture Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Muhammad Arjuna Yusof, Norizam Sulaiman, Siti Amrah H Social Sciences The stingless bee rearing is emergent agriculture activity in Malaysia. The stingless bee products including honey and bee bread, which are stored in propolis-rich pots. The activities of stingless bee rearing are referred to as meliponiculture and it is a crucial activity that encourages the conservation of stingless bees and helping to reduce deforestation due to feral stingless bee colony hunting. Here, we studied direct and indirect hiving method of the feral stingless bee colony into a newly innovative hive called Mustafa-Hive. In the hive, the brood was placed into a split-able throne as a brood chamber and inserted into an air-jacketed palace as an insulation chamber. The honey cassette was used on the hive to induce a monolayer honey pot formation. Findings have shown that all broods in an indirect hiving module provide cleaner broods from the sawdust compared to the direct hiving process. Indiriect hiving gave 100% colony viability and supported by noteworthy yield pot formations in the honeycassette. Findings also showed an average of 4.5ml honey were extracted from each pot to produce an average of 99ml and 256.5ml honey at week 2 and week 4 for every hive, respectively. As conclusion, the indirect hiving method and the use of Mustafa-hive ensures colony survival and induced formation of monolayer honey pots. Thus this hiving module encourage for sustainable meliponiculture, enables for absolute and hygienic honey extractions from honey cassette which could indirectly promote the development of the stingless bee industry Universiti Sains Malaysia Hassan, Ahmad Sanusi Abu Bakar, Muhammad Nasrul Shafii, Jeffiz Ezuer 2016 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/38055/1/Pages_from_Abstract_book_ICOLASS2016-3_38.pdf Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli and Mustafa, Muhammad Arjuna and Yusof, Norizam and Sulaiman, Siti Amrah (2016) Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable Meliponiculture. In: 4th International Conference on Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 2016 (ICOLASS’16). Universiti Sains Malaysia, p. 26. |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Muhammad Arjuna Yusof, Norizam Sulaiman, Siti Amrah Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable Meliponiculture |
| title | Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable
Meliponiculture
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| title_full | Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable
Meliponiculture
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| title_fullStr | Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable
Meliponiculture
|
| title_full_unstemmed | Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable
Meliponiculture
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| title_short | Hiving Method Of Stingless Bee Domestication For Sustainable
Meliponiculture
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| title_sort | hiving method of stingless bee domestication for sustainable
meliponiculture |
| topic | H Social Sciences |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/38055/ http://eprints.usm.my/38055/1/Pages_from_Abstract_book_ICOLASS2016-3_38.pdf |