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Influence of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Health: Do Pollen Quality and Diversity Matter? The beneficial influence of pollen availability on bee health is well-established but whether quality and diversity of pollen diets can modify bee health remains largely unknown. We therefore tested the...

Modeling Food and Population Dynamics in Honey Bee Colonies When forager death rates are low, low food availability limits both the amount of food accumulated by the colony, and colony population size (Figure 2b). However as food availability increases, the amount of stored food and total hive...

A diet of sugar is not equivalent to a diet of honey. Bees had more viruses and problems when fed sucrose or HFCS. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031051