APIS FLOREA ppt

Apis Florea ppt presentaion.

1. APIS FLOREA

2. TAXONOMY FAMILY : Apidea KINGDOM : Animalia SUBFAMILY : Apinae TRIBE : Apini Latreille , 1802 GENUS : Apis Linnaeus , 1758 SUBGENUS : Apis ( Micrapis ) Ashmead , 1904 SPICIES : Apis Florea Fabricus , 1787 COMMON NAME : Red dwarf honey bee image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

3. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

4. DISTRIBUTION According to  Hepburn, et al. (2005),  A. florea  extends 7000 km from its eastern-most extreme in Vietnam and southeastern China, across mainland Asia, along and below the southern flanks of the Himalayas, westwards to the Plateau of Iran, and southerly into Oman. This constitutes 70 degrees of longitude (40°–110° East) and nearly 30 degrees of latitude (6°–34° North). Variations in altitude range from sea level to about 2000 m. A. florea  has also been introduced in historical times in Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and occurred on Java, Indonesia up until ~50 years ago. image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF A.FLOREA Characteristic A. florea Workers Body length (mm) 7-10 Overall coloration Red-brown Proboscis length (mm) 3.11-3.37 Forewing length (mm) 6.17-6.74 Forewing width (mm) 2.12-2.32 Hindwing length (mm) 3.17-4.83 Hindwing width (mm) 1.36 ± 0.04 Comb dimensions Vertical length (fromsupport bottom) (cm) 12.0 ± 3 Horizontal width (cm) 16.9 ± 5.3 Branch diameter (cm) 0.8 ± 0.07 Worker cell dimensions Depth of cell (cm) 0.93 ± 0.07 Width of 10 cells (cm) 2.98 ± 0.15 Drone cell dimensions Depth of cell (cm) 1.33 ± 0.07 Width of 10 cells (cm) 4.88 ± 0.21 Queen cell dimensions Depth of cell (cm) 1.41 ± 0.15 Internal diameter of cell (cm) 0.47 ± 0.09 image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

6. DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERISTICS Worker forewing length between 6.2 – 6.8 mm. Drones with hind leg basitarsus process ; digit long , more than 2/3rds the length of metabastirsus . Female worker with metatibia and dorsolateral margin of  metabasitarsus  with white  setae . Metasomal   T1  and  T2  reddish-orange to reddish-brown. Sting apparatus with 10  lancet  barbs and 4–5 pairs of stylet barbs  ( Jayasvasti and Wongsiri 1992)  . Distance from tip of  lancet  to the first barb = 42.59 µm  ( Jayasvasti and Wongsiri 1993) . image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

7. HONEY PRODUCTION APIS FLOREA : They are the smallest of the true honeybees found in plains of India up to the altitude of 500 m . They build single vertical combs . They are poor honey yielders and yield about 200-900 g of honey per colony . image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

8. LIFECYCLE OF A.FLOREA [1] Eggs are laid singly in a cell in a wax honeycomb , produced and shaped by the worker bees , the queen actually can choose to fertilize the egg she is laying , usually depending on into which cell she is laying . [2] Drones develop from unfertilized eggs while females (queens and worker bees) develop from fertilized eggs . [3] Larvae are initially fed with royal jelly produced by worker bees , later switching to honey and pollen . The exception is a larva fed solely on royal jelly . Which will develop into a queen bee . The larvae undergoes several moltings before spinning a cocoon within the cell , and pupating . image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

9. Cont.. [4] Younger worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae . When their royal-jelly producing glands begin to atrophy , they begin building comb cells . They progress to other within colony tasks as they become older , such as receiving nectar and pollen from foragers , and guarding the hive. Later still , a worker takes her first orientation flights and finally leaves the hive and typically spends the remainder of her life as a forager . [5] Development from egg to emerging bee varies among queens,workers and drones. Queens emerge from their cells in 15,16 days, workers in 21 days and drones in 24 days . [6] This honeycomb belong to a species of honey bees called “Dwarf honey bees” ( Apis florea ). Their stings are often incapable of penetrating human skin . image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

10. Fig ; A.Flores female image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

11. Fig ; A.Florea drone ab domen Fig ; A.Florea drone lateral habitus image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft

12. SUBMITTED TO : Ms. Palak SUBMITTED BY : Sarafat Hossain THANK YOU image source internet. Use for education purposes only. Slide design (C) thesrft