Estudo preliminar das características biométricas de apis mellifera L. na região a sul do rio Save-Sua variabilidade geográfica

Abstract

In the present study, 6 morphological characteristics were measured in each of the 1300 bees corresponding to seven samples from different geographic regions south of the Save River. The data from this work were processed statistically, using non-parametric tests, and whose results show that the bees in the study region are insects characterized by mostly small dimensions, and that they have yellow and black stripes on their abdomen, in addition to their aggressiveness. Still, the results of this work showed that there is no great variability among bees from different geographic regions, however Inhaca seems to differ substantially from other regions, in almost all its characteristics. There are some characteristics that when evaluated, "Inhaca appears with lower values ​​than the others, such as the length of the tongue, the wing, and the cubital index, with 4.91, 7.79, 2.27 respectively, while the others has on average, 5.09, 8.06, 2.37 respectively, for the characteristics mentioned above. It should also be noted that these results suggest the existence of two different breeds, Apis mellifera scutellata in all other regions, with the exception of Inhaca which is Apis mellfera litorea, since the values ​​indicated above are close to those found by others authors as being of these two races. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)