Determination the physical properities of mountain honeybees in some districts produced in Syria

Abstract

This study was conducted in  laboratories of agriculture college in Damascus university by collecting 14 randomized samples of mountain honeybees from three districted aria (Latakia, Homs and Damascus) during 2017 to determine physical properities ( total solid, refractive index, PH, electrical conductivity(EC), viscosity and color to know the quality of mountain honeybees in simple and fast way. Results showed that mountain honeybees

In Damascus district had  highest total solid(83.18%) with highest EC(0.54  

m s cm-1 and lowest in moisture(14.29% by refractive index) , lowest viscosity(78  Piose) and lowest PH(4.12) comparing with Latakia and Homs districts. In addition , the color value by Hunter lab revealed that there were different color ranging from light  yellow amber to heavy yellow amber and dark  amber in all districts with the superiority  for Damascus districts with red color for a* value . However,  all the samples were accepted by Syrian standard (No.412   , 1987)  with low value