Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
GP Harke, PS Neharkar and PR Zanwar

Abstract:
The investigation on effect of temperature and humidity on honey bee visits in safflower crop were conducted on research farm of Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of agriculture, V.N.M.K.V. Parbhani (MS). The aim of this research was to determine the foraging behaviour of honeybees in relation to climatic factors. The data were collected at time intervals of 8:00-10:00 AM, 12:00-02:00PM, 04:00-06:00PM, during one day. To study the effect of weather parameters, five bee species were used i.e Melipona irridipenis, Apis dorsata, Apis cerana, Apis florea and Apis mellifera. The highest no of bee visits were observed on 17^th March 2020 at which Max. temperature was 34.3 °C and humidity was in the range of 67%. The results shows that the temperature have positive correlation, whereas, the relative humidity have negative correlation with the bee visits.