Using of Molasses as a Repellent Substance for Honey Bees Protection Against Pesticides During the Spraying Time of Farms

In order to evaluate efficiency of repellent substances for honey bee protection in poison’s environments, an experiment was carried out with molasses as a repellent. In all treatments of this experiment, were used 400 liters of water, 3 liters of phosalon and different concentration of molasses (including 0, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5 and 15 liters/hectare). For evaluation the effect of molasses repellency in field condition, insect pollinators were collected 3, 8, 24, 72 hours and 7 days after spraying. Numbers of honey bees in each plot were counted separately. This research was done in spilt plot design with six treatment, five replicate and five sampling time. The result showed that significant differences between treatments in different times and also between mean of treatments in all of the times (P<0.01). Based on the obtained results average of honeybee collected in all of the time in the treatment of 15 and 12.5 liters per hectare were significantly higher than other treatments. Repellency effect of 15 liters molasses per hectare was significantly higher than other treatments three and eight hours after treatment. So, application of 15 liters molasses per hectare was recommended in chemical times.