Evaluating the colony development of stingless bee (heterotrigona itama) using mory technique

Heterotrigona itama is the common species of the stingless bee that has been propagated. The MUSTAFA and UTOB hive techniques are focused on the hive design only. These do not include the queen in their care for the colony's development. This study reports the effectiveness of an innovative technique in propagating the H. itama colonies. The MORY technique focuses on the hive and the queen in the propagation process. This study used nine colonies of H. itama and the period of this study is 3 months. This approach ensures 100% survival for H. itama species. This is reinforced with the t-test and one-way ANOVA. There were no significant changes in light intensity between the nine colonies' locations [t (13) = -.861, p = .202]. Then, the daily mean of temperature results demonstrate substantial differences across the nine colonies [t (13) = 21.35, p<0.001]. The study found significant differences in daily mean of relative humidity among the nine colonies (t (13) = 9.96, p<0.001). Moreover, the effect of colony growth was significant, according to an analysis of variance, [ F (109.92, 41.08) = 8, p = <.001]. Post hoc analyses using the Tukey HSD were done in this study to define the significance between the logs.