A study was carried out to investigate the influence of differently aged wax combs (foundation as zero, 1, 2, 3 and 4 − 6 years old) on some biological aspects that affect the productivity of honey bee colonies. Twenty-five package colonies were equally divided and situated on each of the tested combs during the spring of two successive years (2018 and 2019). The obtained results revealed that worker brood areas, worker population, worker life span, weights of newly emerged workers and drones, and honey yield significantly increased with fresh combs. However, drone brood areas increased with old combs, and wax combs age had no effect on worker survivorship. It could be concluded that the wax combs aged from zero (foundation) to three years old (light color combs) are more preferable in the performance and productivity of honey bee colonies than the older (dark color combs) ones.

进行了一项研究，以研究不同年龄的蜡梳（基础年龄为零，1、2、3和4-6岁）对影响蜜蜂群体生产力的某些生物学方面的影响。在连续两年的春季（2018年和2019年）中，将25个包装菌落平均分配并放置在每个经过测试的梳子上。获得的结果表明，使用新鲜梳子后，工人的育雏面积，工人的数量，工人的寿命，新出现的工人和无人机的重量以及蜂蜜产量均显着增加。但是，随着旧梳子的出现，无人机的育雏面积会增加，蜡梳子的年龄对工人的生存率没有影响。