Pollen Source Affects Development and Behavioral Preferences in Honey Bees

With the availability of various plants in bloom simultaneously, honey bees prefer to collect some pollen types over others. To better understand pollen’s role as a reward for workers, we compared the digestibility and nutritional value of two pollen diets, namely, pear (<i>Pyrus bretschneider...

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Main Authors: Jun Lan, Guiling Ding, Weihua Ma, Yusuo Jiang, Jiaxing Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Insects
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/2/130