The Importance of Sugar for the Pupation of the Worker Honeybee
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 7 (3) , 109-112
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1968.11100199
Abstract
Summary Unaltered worker jelly (brood food) does not support pupation, but the addition of enough sugar to make the total sugar concentration equal to that of royal jelly permits a normal prepupal ecdysis to take place.Keywords
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