A Technique for Measuring Feeding Responses of Honeybees in Their Hive

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Summary The feeding responses of worker honeybees in their hive may be determined by inducing bees of appropriate physiological age to move to a feeding site above the combs where they are separated from the colony but able to return to it without hindrance. By this method it is shown that bees from combs of unsealed brood preferred pollen of Prunus amygdalus to that of Echium lycopsis. The bees were attracted to the solvent extract of pollen of Melilotus alba but showed very little response to the residue left after extraction.

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