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These experiments were conducted at Jordan University of Science and Technology campus from April to November of 2004, to investigate the effect of formic acid on the infestation of honeybee colony with Varroa destructor . Formic acid was applied at concentrations of 75%, 85%, or 98% using three methods of application, above, bottom, or both ways. Results indicated that the use of formic acid at low concentration (75%) did not have obvious effect on Varroa infestation with the three methods of application. Application of 98% formic acid resulted in a negative effect on the number of brood and worker bees, although it reduced the infestation rate of the colonies with Varroa to 0%. The moderate concentration of formic acid (85%) reduced the infestation rate with Varroa to a very low level, 2–3% using the three methods of application, whereas numbers of brood and workers of honey bees were not influenced. Moderate concentration of formic acid (85%) indicated that the correlation of the three methods of applications to the percentage of infestation rate was not highly significant at p ≤ 0.05. The bottom application was the most effective in controlling Varroa mite.
Studying groups through their actions on different sets and algebraic structures has become a useful technique to know about the structure of the groups. The main object of this work is to examine the action of the infinite group
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Pollen morphology of 16 species belonging to 8 different families; Apocynaceae, Brassicaceae, Capparaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Solanaceae and Zygophyllaceae were analysed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the help of microscopic techniques. Both qualitative and quantitative features of pollen were examined including polar and equatorial diameter, colpus length and width, exine sculpturing, pores number, pollen shape, number of sterile and fertile pollen using Leica microscope (D1000) fitted with camera Meiji Infinity 1 and examined statistically by software IBM SPSS Statistics 20. Pollen observed were small to large with suboblate, oblate-spheroidal, prolate-spheroidal and subprolate shape. Exine ornamentations were reticulate and psilate type in all the studied plants. Colpi and pores of the selected plants observed are tricolporate, tricolpate and monoporate. The present study showed that both spring and autumn seasons are the prominent seasons for honey production and beekeeping industries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Brassica camp-estris is the most visited species by honeybees in the study area. Melliferous plants gave knowledge about botanical origin of honey and geographical origin of honeybees. The current study identified numerous bee forage plants which may help to raise the concept of cultivation of melliferous herbaceous plants by the local people, to be used for honey production. The identification of these potential sources may help the beekeepers to increase the honey production and increase in agricultural yields through pollinations.