A project of design and developing a venom collecting apparatus was conducted during 1995-1996 in Animal Science Research Institute of Iran. The device is a cage-like box of 42x50x58cm dimentions. The inner side of the walls of the apparatus is equipped with electric wires. The wires are
electrically charged and dischared sequentially. The bees that come in touch with two adjacent wires receive an electric shock of 21 volts for 3 seconds.
After a lapse of 7 seconds, the current is on again for the next electric shock. This lO-second cycle continues for a duration of 5 minutes, during which bees
are made/-to sting on the plastic covering of a glass plate. The Venom
deposited on the glass plates is scraped off by a sharp lancet in the laboratory. Venom was extracted from 16 colonies of bees (8 treatments and R control) every 15 days. Throughout the experiment which-lasted for 6 months H38 mg of venom per colony was obtained. No diverse effect was observed in the production of honey (P
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