Floral dearth management by feeding sugar beet syrup in APIS mellifera

Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris) availability coincided with floral dearth. Its syrup feeding treatments namely JS100 (100 ml juice mixed with 100 gm sugar), JS75 (75gm sugar dissolved in 100 ml juice), JS 50 (50 gm sugar dissolved in 100ml juice), JS0 (100ml juice only) and WS100 (100gm sugar dissolved in 100ml water) were applied during dearth and JS100 significantly influenced the bee colony for higher production. In treatment JS100, the brood area, multiplied bee colony and production of honey were greater than the sugar syrup. Feeding sugar beet syrup during dearth maintained the strength and brood area increase in the number of bee and brood frames.