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Abstract The present study was carried out during spring seasons, of 2019 and 2020 at a special apiary in Al-Kom Al-Akhdar, Shebin Al-Kom, Menoufia Governorate, to study modern methods of breeding honey bee colonies in order to reach the optimal methods for beekeeping by comparing the type of hives, whether by horizontal expansion that the colony contains two queens, including a horizontal queen barrier or Vertical that colonies contain two queens with a vertical barrier between them, or Kenyan hive (with circular frames) and the number of 15 frames or foam hives (made of foam), compared to the Langstroth wooden Langstroth colonies with ten frames and the extent of their impact on the productivity of queens from brood areas and other bee products. The important results was as follows: I- Effect of hive type on the production of Egyptian honeybee honeybee strain 1. The mean production of brood area raged from 110.97±20.37 (inch2) for Kenyan hive to 48.39±5.83 (inch2) for horizontal hive, with highly significant differences. 2. The honey production ranged from Kenyan hive was 9467±433.33 gr, to langstroth hive with 4317±187.82 gr, with highly significant differences. 3. The mean production of clover pollen ranged from 1630.47±685.61 cm for vertical hive to 821.19±49.12 cm for both of horizontal and Kenyan hive, and there were non significant differences 4. The maize pollen production ranged from 1287.93±107.32 to 920.30±53.40 cm for vertical and foam, respectively. There were non significant differences5. There were non significant differences between five hives conditional rearing hives for Egyptian honeybee strain. 6. The mean queen ovary weight for Egyptian honeybee strain ranged from 0.0044±0.000176 g for vertical hive to 0.0037±0.000291 g for foam hive. 7. The mean worker wax mirror length (mm) for Egyptian honeybee strain ranged from 3.021±0.091 (mm) for both of horizontal and Kenyan hives to 2.896±0.042 (mm) for foam hive. There were non significant differences. 8. The worker wax mirror width (mm) for Egyptian honeybee strain ranged from Kenyan hive was 1.729±0.042 mm to vertical hives with 1.667±0.021 mm, there were non significant differences. 9. Worker wax mirror diameter (mm) for Egyptian honeybee strain ranged from foam hive was 0.396±0.055 mm to Langstroth hive with 0.313±0.036 mm, there non significant differences II- Effect of hive type on the production of Italian honeybee honeybee strain 1. The mean production of brood area (inch2) for Italian honeybee strain ranged from 160.67±29.50 (inch2) for Kenyan hive to 42.28±0.60 (inch2) for horizontal hive. There were highly significant differences. 2. The honey production for Italian honeybee strain ranged from Kenyan hive was 8220±145.72 g, to Langstroth hive with 3666.7±235.11 gr., there were highly significant differences. 3. The mean production of clover pollen for Italian honeybee strain ranged from 1630.47±685.61 cm for both of horizontal and Kenyan hive to 1046.19±386.98 cm for foam hive. There were non significant differences4. Maize pollen production which ranged from 1542.28±72.67 to 989.37±62.72 cm for horizontal to vertical, respectively. But, there were highly significant differences. 5. The mean queen weight (gr) for Italian honeybee strain ranged from 0.159±0.003 (gr) for foam hive to 0.157±0.006 (gr) for Langstroth hive. There were non significant differences between five hives conditional rearing hives. 6. The mean queen ovary weight for Italian honeybee strain ranged from 0.0044±0.00018 g for foam hive, to 0.0037±0.00036 g for Kenyan hive. There were non significant differences between five hives in queen ovary weight. 7. The mean worker wax mirror length (mm) for Italian honeybee strain ranged from 3.042±0.042 (mm) for horizontal hive to 2.813±0.036 (mm) for foam hive. There were significant differences between five hive conditional rearing. 8. Worker wax mirror width (mm) for Italian honeybee strain ranged from Kenyan and hive was 1.792±0.042 mm to foam hives with 1.646±0.042 mm. there were significant differences between five hives. 9. Worker wax mirror diameter (mm) for Italian honeybee strain ranged from foam hive was 0.417±0.055 mm to Kenyan hive with 0.271±0.021 mm. Also, there significant differences between five hives conditional rearing. III- Effect of hive type on the production of Carniolan honeybee honeybee strain 1. The mean production of brood area (inch2) for Carniolan honeybee strain ranged from to 40.84±0.12 (inch2) for vertical hive. There were highly significant differences. |