Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Saboor Ahmad; Khalid Ali Khan; Shahmshad Ahmed Khan; Hamed A. Ghramh; Aziz Gul

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258430

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Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Saboor Ahmad,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Institute of Apicultural Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Khalid Ali Khan ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: shamshadahmeduca@gmail.com (SAK); khalidtalpur@hotmail.com (KAK)

Affiliations Research Centre for Advance Material Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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Shahmshad Ahmed Khan ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: shamshadahmeduca@gmail.com (SAK); khalidtalpur@hotmail.com (KAK)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah (PMAS) Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4341-9066

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Hamed A. Ghramh,

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Centre for Advance Material Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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Aziz Gul

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
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Comparative assessment of various supplementary diets on commercial honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and colony performance

Saboor Ahmad,
Khalid Ali Khan,
Shahmshad Ahmed Khan,
Hamed A. Ghramh,
Aziz Gul

Published: October 11, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258430

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