Publication
A doubled-faced bee venom collector: a new contribution to improve bee venom collection
| dc.contributor.author | El Mehdi, Iouraouine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mustapha, Harandou | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vilas-Boas, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Campos, Maria G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-08T17:15:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-08T17:15:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Collecting bee venom or apitoxin requires careful work with the highest degree of cleanliness. Furthermore, precautions at the time of collection in the apiary must be considered. Several kinds of bee venom collector exist in the market of beekeeping equipment [1,2]. In the apparatus used outside the hive, the collector panel is put on the entrance or on the bottom board of the hive. Other types are used inside the hive, on or instead of the frames. The aim of this study is to provide an improved device for collecting bee venom with required quality at several scales: 1-quality of the bee venom namely, specifically purity and physico-chemical characteristics, 2- yield of the collection, 3-stability of the beehive as well as the apiary, 4-reduce bee damage or the death of the excited bees per period of collection, 5- provide an affordable device for Moroccan beekeepers. The improvement affects several levels and sections: electronic control system part, stainless wire array, venom collection surface. As a result of the study we can conclude that it is possible to make a bee venom collector that is relatively cheap and, at the same time, suited to Moroccan conditions. The optimum frequency of bee venom collecting event is every 10 to 15 days and the optimum duration of bee venom collection in the beehive is 30 min to 60 min early in the morning. The experiment showed that the best method consists of placing the frame at one of the outermost opposite ends of the beehive. An average yield per period of collection (30 min to 60 min) and per beehive was from 30 to 35 mg of dry venom. Furthermore the quality was very promising. With the present apparatus bee venom is dried on clean conditions with the minimum contaminations and without secondary air current, reducing dead or injured worker bees – 15 to 30 died bees. The presence of a wire tensioner provides a good conductibility of the current and consequently an optimum bee electrocuting. In view of the foregoing, three conclusions draw oneself: 1-The production of bee venom in Moroccan apiary will constitute a new practice in addition to others and consequently an additional income for beekeepers. 2-This device will be the first step to develop other apparatus with several improved and coupled techniques. 3-The feasibility of bee venom collected by this device can likely confirmed by a chemical and biological characterization. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Le Mehdi, Iouarouine; Mustapha, H.; Vilas-Boas, Miguel; Campos, M.G. (2018). A doubled-faced bee venom collector: a new contribution to improve bee venom collection. In Livro de resumos do V Congresso Ibérico de Apicultura. ISBN 978-989-95050-3-2 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-989-95050-3-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/19113 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Bee venom | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Apitoxin | pt_PT |
| dc.title | A doubled-faced bee venom collector: a new contribution to improve bee venom collection | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Coimbra | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | V Congresso Ibérico de Apicultura | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Vilas-Boas | |
| person.givenName | Miguel | |
| person.identifier | 1693134 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | A918-C6FF-81A4 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-8665-5280 | |
| person.identifier.rid | I-5949-2013 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 6602648497 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication | f58280c8-298b-4e4c-9f7c-4517300d3382 | |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery | f58280c8-298b-4e4c-9f7c-4517300d3382 |