The Effects of Pollen Collection Frequency on Colony Development and Honey Production in Honey Bee Colonies

In this study, effects of production pollen were investigated on effectiveness of hatchery production, adult worker bee population development and honey yield of colony. during the investigation, totally 25 colonies were used and divided into five groups after been equalized for queen age and colony population strength. this investigation was carried out to between,25.04–05.08.2008. these treatments were the first group trapped continuously, second group trapped skip a day, third group trapped 3 day and 3 day un trapped, fourth group trapped 6 day and 6 days un trapped and fifth group as control colonies. according to the results obtained, these groups have had averages of framed bees number as, 7.59±0.29, 7.85±0.35, 8.14±0.40, 8.02±0.31 and 8.09±0.33; averages of brood areas 2858,73±132,6, 2914,58±125,5, 2897,55±129,5, 2860,72±119,9 and 2941,02±144,2 cm² /colony, averages of honey yields as 19.86 ±1.16, 20.60±1.71, 18.95±1.45, 21.60±1.73, 21.50±1.86 and 20.50 ±1.58 kg; averages of pollen yields 2080,00±113,50, 1215,00±49.60, 896,50±41.25 and 1050,50±38.00 gr, respectively. in the study, pollen trapping did not show significant negative effect on the colony development and honey yield.