Cubital Index Determination of some Honey Bee Races Apis mellifera subspecies at El-Manzla Region in El-Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt

Egypt had different honey bee races as a result of import many races in previous years. Here seven locations were choice from isolated place as El-Manzla region to examine the races and their hybrids by using cubital index as one of the important morphometric characters to determine bee races and their hybrids. The results indicated that the general means of cubital indexes were 2.12 with F value 12.094 and L.S.D 0.199 in El-Bosrat, 2.44 with F value 9.517 and L.S.D 0.217 in El-Kafer El-Geded, 2.66 in Azbat El-Ltaifa, 2.43 with F value 12.006 and L.S.D 0.158 in Bazlla, 2.23 with F value 21.954 and 0.157 in El-Manzla research station, 2.36 with F value 5.607 and L.S.D 0.190 in El-Satayta and 2.40 with F value 13.904 and L.S.D 0.189 in Met-Silsil. The seven previous locations illustrated that 49.33% of collecting samples were Apis mellifera mellifera (1.89- 2.00) in El-Bosrat, 36.67% were Apis mellifera yemenitica or syrinca (2.1 – 2.3) in Met- Silsil, 28.00% were Apis mellifera lamarkii (2.3 – 2.5) in Baziia, 17.33% were Apis mellifera ligustica or carnica (2.5 – 2.7) and 18.67% were Apis mellifra Cypria (2.7 – 2.9) in Azbit El-Ltifa. There were differing percentages of other strains in different apiaries at the EL-Manzla region.