Adequate nutrition supports the development of healthy honey bee colonies. We give an
overview of the nutritional demands of honey bee workers at three levels:(1) colony nutrition …

Bee-collected pollen (BCP) is a well-known functional food. Honey bees process the
collected pollen and store it in the hive, inside the comb cells. The processed pollen is called …

Methods are described for working with Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae in the field and
in the laboratory. For fieldwork, different sampling methods are described to determine …

This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant
experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is …

▪ Abstract Division of labor is one of the most basic and widely studied aspects of colony
behavior in social insects. Studies of division of labor are concerned with the integration of …

The pollen content of the gastrointestinal tract of honeybee workers was investigated in the
morning before the beginning of flight activity. It was low in young bees, largest in about 9 …

Elucidating the mechanisms by which honey bees process pollen vs. protein supplements
are important in the generation of artificial diets needed to sustain managed honeybees. We …

Honeybees exhibit two patterns of organization of work. In the spring and summer, division
of labor is used to maximize growth rate and resource accumulation, while during the winter …

Honeybee workers (Apis mellifera) may be classified as either short-lived summer bees or
long-lived winter bees in temperate zones. The protein status appears to be a major …

Newly-emerged honey bees were placed in cages and fed sucrose syrup and one of the
following single-pollen diets: Malus domestica Borkh., Brassica campestris L., Phacelia …