An overview of artificial nutrition in apiculture

Syed Kamran Ahmad; Arshad Ali; Prince Tarique Anwar; Hassan Ali Dawah

doi:10.18006/2023.11(6).884.918

Authors

Syed Kamran Ahmad Department of Plant Protection, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India- 202 002 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-2345
Arshad Ali Department of Zoology, Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India – 242 001 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0244-1437
Prince Tarique Anwar Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India- 202 002 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-0033
Hassan Ali Dawah Entomology Section, Department of Biodiversity, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5642-7247

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18006/2023.11(6).884.918

Keywords:

Honey bee, Artificial feeding, Natural food components, Natural nutrients, Diet combinations, Diet patterns

Abstract

Artificial nutrition in apiculture is a long-term subject of discussion and investigation. The maintenance and boosting of bee colonies in apiculture depends on synthetic food around the globe to overcome the suppressing factors, including dearth periods. The information on types of food components and their combinations used is haphazard and hardly helpful in determining the advancements in the artificial feeding of bees. This study aimed to extract the available information on artificial feeding on honeybees and arrange it most scientifically. The information in the form of research or review articles available on every platform, viz., soft portals, printed journals, books and scientific proceedings, were collected and analyzed to produce a comprehensive and informative review article on the artificial nutrients in apiculture. Compilation of the available information revealed that artificial feeding of bees depends on food components and their combinations. Based on this, it can be suggested that nectar and pollen are basic foods of honey bees, and based on this, the food components were further categorized as nectar supplements and pollen supplements. These supplements were fed to bees as natural nutrients and food components. The natural nutrients include proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, yeasts, antibiotics, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants, etc. Meanwhile, under natural food components, cereal grains, pulses, beans, fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, spices, condiments, and some non-traditional/ miscellaneous kinds of stuff have been included in the bee diets. On the other hand, many diet categories have been prepared using the abovementioned nutrients and food components in various forms and proportions. In general, the pollen and nectar, the main food of bees, have been supplemented under different diet combinations. These diet combinations used pollen and nectar substitutes or combined with other nutrition, drugs, antibiotics, etc. The present investigation provides an updated overview of the food categories and their combinations used in the artificial feeding of bees to date. These findings can help explore new food items and their effective diet combinations.

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