The experiment was realized in Padre Assis’ apiary, at Santiago county Brazil, from December 10, 1996 to January 10, 1997. Twenty Langstroth beehives with two separeted nests by an excluding screen of queen bees were used. The experimental unity was constituted of beehives in which treatments were applied randomly. The effects of treatments were evaluated through the beehives performance of production of royal jelly and the data were submitted to the analysis of variance and the test of Tukey. The relation between feed consumption and royal jelly production, resulted in the treatment-1, average production of 7.9g of royal jelly/beehive of each harvest, in treatment-2 the production was of 4.32g. These results evidenced that the use of apiaries of the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, for royal jelly production in December and January is practicable. This results were achieved with the utilization of supplemental feeding constituted of three parts of sugar and one of milky meal.
royal jelly; production; beehives
