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Propagation of Stingless Bees Using a Colony Split Technique for Sustainable Meliponiculture
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Author(s): Shamsul Bahri Abd Razak (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia), Muhammad Izzhan (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia), Nur Aida Hashim (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia)and Norasmah Basari (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 16
Source title:
Recent Advances in Global Meliponiculture
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shamsul Bahri Abd Razak (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia), Tuan Zainazor Tuan Chilek (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia)and Jumadil Saputra (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6265-2.ch012
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Abstract
Stingless bee farming or meliponiculture is a flourishing industry in Malaysia. The common practice by local stingless bee keepers in order to get new colonies is to obtain feral stingless bees hive from their natural habitat. This practice includes cutting down whole trees to extract stingless bee colonies for domestication. This is not a sustainable way of meliponiculture. The more efficient, sustainable, economic, and eco-friendly method is to breed stingless bees in hives and propagate them for colony multiplication. The aim of this experiment is to provide a good propagation method for stingless bee (Heterotrigonaitama) by dividing brood and queen cells and transfer them into a new box (split method). This method requires a portion of brood with queen cells from original log hive to be transferredinto an empty box hive. From this experiment, 80% of new box hives become new colonies (with new queens).
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