Catalysation of Artificial Sourcing on Honey Bees: The Direct Imprint on Physiological Processes and Gut Microbiota

Mir Owais Ahmad *

Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar Srinagar, Kashmir, 190025, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

S.S. Pathania

Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar Srinagar, Kashmir, 190025, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

Muneer Ahmad

Professor Dryland Agriculture Research Station Rangreth Budgam, Kashmir, 191132, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

Wasim Yousuf

Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar Srinagar, Kashmir, 190025, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

Khalid Ferooz

Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar Srinagar, Kashmir, 190025, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

Suhail Nazir Bhat

Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar Srinagar, Kashmir, 190025, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.


Abstract

Microbes in the insect gut, forming the insect gut micro biome, include bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists, and they are vital for insect survival, performing roles in digestion, nutrient synthesis, immune defence, detoxification, and development. These microbial communities are shaped by environmental habitat, diet, and the host insect's phylogeny, with bacteria like Proteobacteria and Firmicutes being dominant in many insect guts. The interactions are often symbiotic, with insects providing a stable environment and nutrients, while microbes provide benefits like producing vitamins and breaking down plant toxins. For the microbial inhabitation inside the body, insects gut is enormously flooded with distinctive environments in which one entity of microbial world called bacteria provides many indispensable services to the insect. To perform the vital functions, insect body exhibit a wide range of dependence on the gut fauna especially the bacterial population. In dearth and lean period insect digestive tracts vary extensively in morphology and physicochemical properties, factors that greatly influence microbial community structure. The artificial sourcing of the honey bees in terms of essential and non essential amino acids such as arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine has been documented with upto the mark vital functions in the insect body especially the amino acid leucine. The disease controlling ability and nutrition supplement were thoroughly exploited by artificial diets incorporation in apiary by human involvement. The insufficient nutritional deficit in the area were compensated by routinuous feeding of artificial diet “pollen substitute”.

Keywords: Bacteria, population, amino acids, apiary, artificial diet


How to Cite

Mir Owais Ahmad, S.S. Pathania, Muneer Ahmad, Wasim Yousuf, Khalid Ferooz, and Suhail Nazir Bhat. 2025. “Catalysation of Artificial Sourcing on Honey Bees: The Direct Imprint on Physiological Processes and Gut Microbiota”. Archives of Current Research International 25 (10):349–362. https://doi.org/10.9734/acri/2025/v25i101573.