BACKGROUND: Honey is an excellent food product with health-giving characteristics. On the other hand, the honey quality can change based on various factors. OBJECTIVES: Physicochemical experiments intend to investigate the honey quality in four geographic directions of Kurdistan province shelf-life and the containers the honey is placed in. METHODS: In this research, totally 96 samples from 4 apiaries in various parts of the province were prepared and maintained in various dishes/containers and various (time) periods at 25.5±3.5 °C. After preparing the samples, some factors including moisture, reducing sugars, sucrose, pH, acidity, the ratio of fructose to glucose, ash, diastase, hydroxyl methyl furfural were evaluated. RESULTS: The result showed the moisture total average, reducing sugars, sucrose, pH, acidity, the ratio of fructose to glucose, and ash were 13.79%, 77.67%, 2.22%, 3.86, and 21.39 of meq/kg, 1.09% and 0.13%, respectively. Qualitative examinations showed, there was the distance in all samples but no HME. With the increase in shelf-life time, metabolites in the ratio of fructose to glucose and acidity increased significantly, but the factors, moisture, pH were reduced significantly (P<0.05). Various containers had no significant impact on physicochemical characteristics of honey. CONCLUSIONS: Generally, one can say that the comparison between the obtained amounts with the current standards, quality of the honey samples were standard and favorable. According to the results of this study, honey can remain at room temperature in different containers for 9 months and maintain anacceptable quality.

This study aims to determine the influence of egg laying behavior on containers on the density of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito larvae in Gampong Kopelma Darussalam, Syiah Kuala District. Sampling was conducted using a simple random sampling technique by surveying larvae in containers from 100 houses. This was followed by the identification of mosquito larval species, and the data were analyzed using entomological indices and Chi-Square tests. Based on the calculation of the entomological index in Gampong Kopelma Darussalam, Syiah Kuala District obtained the values of the House Index, Container Index, and Breteau Index for containers outside the house are 15%, 28.3%, and 17% and the values of House Index, Container Index and Breteau Index for containers in the house are 26%, 13.1%, and 29% so that it can be categorized that the density of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito larvae in Gampong Kopelma Darussalam, Syiah Kuala District is moderate. The results showed that Aedes aegypti was found to be more than 85.1% compared to Aedes albopictus 14.9%. The analysis results showed a relationship between the type, location, material, size, and color of the container with the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae in contrast to Aedes albopictus mosquito larvae which showed a relationship with the type, location, and material of the container. The results indicated that Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae were predominantly found in containers inside the house, whereas Aedes albopictus mosquito larvae were more frequently found in containers outside the house.