The Relationship Between the Amount of Unsealed Brood in Honeybee Colonies and Their Pollen Collection
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 11 (1) , 9-12
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1972.11099693
Abstract
Summary In 1968 and 1969 six experiments on groups of 6–9 colonies fitted with pollen traps showed that: (1) there was a significant correlation between the amount of unsealed brood and the amount of pollen collected during each experimental period; (2) queenless colonies without brood collected only small amounts of pollen; (3) colonies which had similar amounts of unsealed brood collected different amounts of pollen at different locations and in different months.Keywords
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