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Apis mellifera nutrition - reference

Amino acids are obtained from pollen only, because honey bees do not have any other sources of prote [More]

Bee nutrition - Hydak 1970

The food of adult worker bees consists of pollen and nectar or honey.
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Bee feeding recipes - basics.

Some bee feeding recipes basics.
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Amino Acid Composition of an Organic Brown Rice Protein

Resume: Brown rice is an excellent source of protein, containing 37% of the total protein as es [More]

A comparison of bee bread made by Africanized and European honey bees

The influence of genotype on the conversion of pollen to bee bread and on the protein titers of bees [More]

Fatty acid composition of pollen and the effect in pollen and flour diets on longevity

The size of the apiculture industry in Western Australia (W.A.) is one of the smallest in the nation [More]

Lipid-enhanced pollen and lipid-reduced flour diets and their effect on the longevity of honey bees

As eucalypt pollens contain low concentrations of lipid, enhancing pollen diets with fatty acids was [More]

Influence of bottom board on ventilation

The air flow characteristics within the hive changed significantly when a bottom cavity was added to [More]

The Biology and Management of Colonies in Winter

In nature bees have two general methods for maintaining colony temperatures in winter: 1) selecting [More]

Influence of bottom board on ventilation

The influence of bottom board design on the honeybee hive environment was explored using computation [More]