@article{Bataw_Shareef_2018, place={Al Bayda, Libya}, title={Foraging Behaviour of Honey Bees Apis mellifera Linn. Visiting The Flowers of Some Wild Plants in Eljabal Alakhder-Libya}, volume={33}, url={https://omu.edu.ly/journals/index.php/mjsc/article/view/175}, DOI={10.54172/mjsc.v33i2.175}, abstractNote={<p>This study was conducted to identify the foraging behaviour of honey bees <em>Apis mellifera </em>in the search for food during their visit to the wild flower plants <em>Sinapis alba</em>, <em>Pelargonium radula</em>, <em>Malva parviflora</em> and <em>Stachy stournefortii</em> in Eljabal Alakhder region. The results showed differences in the handling time periods with a significant difference between plant flower species. It showed a longer resting period compared with the handling time for flowers of the <em>Pelargonium radula</em>, which recorded the lowest time, also the travelling time of honey bee among the flowers of the plant species showed a significant difference.<em> Stachy stournefortii</em> recorded a longer travelling time with an average of 4.3 seconds, and <em>Pelargonium radula</em> with 3.5 seconds. <em>Apis mellifera</em> showed a different activity among the different flowers in the collection of nectar or pollen during different daytime hours.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences}, author={Bataw, Ali A. and Shareef, Nesrin K.}, year={2018}, month={Jun.}, pages={117–123} }