Quantifying the effects of pollen nutrition on honey bee queen egg laying with a new laboratory system.

Honey bee populations have been declining precipitously over the past decade, and multiple causative factors have been identified. Recent research indicates that these frequently co-occurring stressors interact, often in unpredictable ways, therefore it has become important to develop robust methods...

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Main Authors: Julia D Fine, Hagai Y Shpigler, Allyson M Ray, Nathanael J Beach, Alison L Sankey, Amy Cash-Ahmed, Zachary Y Huang, Ieva Astrauskaite, Ran Chao, Huimin Zhao, Gene E Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6124782?pdf=render