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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, a premier institution of agricultural education and research in the country, began as a small agricultural research farm in 1899 on 30 acres of land donated by Her Excellency Maharani Kempa Nanjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhiyavaru, the Regent of Mysore and appointed Dr. Lehmann, German Scientist to initiate research on soil crop response with a Laboratory in the Directorate of Agriculture. Later under the initiative of the Dewan of Mysore Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Mysore Agriculture Residential School was established in 1913 at Hebbal which offered Licentiate in Agriculture and later offered a diploma programme in agriculture during 1920. The School was upgraded to Agriculture Collegein 1946 which offered four year degree programs in Agriculture. The Government of Mysore headed by Sri. S. Nijalingappa, the then Chief Minister, established the University of Agricultural Sciences on the pattern of Land Grant College system of USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences Act No. 22 was passed in Legislative Assembly in 1963. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the Vice President of India inaugurated the University on 21st August 1964.

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Subject: Apiculture × Author: ARAVIN, CHAKRAVARTHI. × Start date: 1970 × Type: Thesis ×
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    EVALUATION OF LEARNING EFFICIENCY IN Apis mellifera WITH RESPECT TO TIME AND AGE
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore, 2009-09-12) ARAVIN, CHAKRAVARTHI.; BHAT, N. S.
    Experiments were performed to determine the circadian influence and effect of age on honey bee learning. Along with the above said major objective, associated issues such as odor preference, influence of time on the honey bee sucrose responsiveness, individual variation in learning with time were addressed. Two species of bees were used in the study viz. Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. The results revealed that acquisition performances in Apis cerana was very poor which was in contrast to Apis mellifera which exhibited significant acquisition performances. Hence forth all the objectives were addressed using Apis mellifera as the model system. The results revealed that there is significant effect of time on learning in bees which led to formulation of Scattered and focused attention hypothesis for the strength of learning and the results were not significant for sucrose responsiveness, effect of age on learning and odor preferences. Individual variation in learning was found to vary with time points. And greater variation was found during early morning.