Bee Studies 2013, Vol 5, Num, 1     (Pages: 029-031)
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Characteristic features of honey produced in Gulludere village in Askale/Erzurum and Agricultural enterprise in Ulas/Sivas

Ahmet KUVANCI 1 ,Ömer YILMAZ 1 ,Fatih YILMAZ 1 ,Ümit KAYABOYNU 1

1 Arıcılık Araştırma İstasyonu Müdürlüğü, Ordu Viewed : 1673 - Downloaded : 694 It is established equality according to brood nest, comb number with bees, coequal queen, stored honey and pollen amount between 40 colonies supplied from Ordu Region. After feeding and maintaining activities, colonies are moved to TIGEM Agricultural enterprise in Ulas County/ Sivas City in 2010 and Gulludere village in Askale/ Erzurum in 2011.

At the end of nectar flow season, when combs are sealed in 2/3 rate, honey is harvested at the same time from 3 colonies selected randomly and analyzed.

It is found that there is no significance difference statistically, between invert sugar, sucrose, humidity, HMF, pH, Asidity, Diastase number, Mg, Fe, Cu and Na amount of honey samples. But it is noted significance difference between conductivity, ash, K and Ca amounts of honey, statistically.

Mean values of honey produced in Sivas and Erzurum are conductivity: 0.643,0.600 qS/cm, ash: %0.260, % 0.300, K: 179.7 mg/kg, 292.333 mg/kg and Ca: 31.33 mg/kg 19.87 mg/kg. Keywords : Honey bee, honey, colony, biochemical analysis