> >As noted in the study, Nurse bees put the pattie material directly into
the cell (without processing)
>>I question whether there is any evidence for this whatsoever. One could
easily view the larval meconium under a scope to confirm.
>
when worker larvae hatch, they are pro-
vided with jelly from the brood food glands
of the nurses (Hanser and Rembold,
1964; Rembold, 1974) until they reach an
age of 3.5 d. Afterwards, they receive a
mixture of jelly, honey and pollen; this lat-
er food mixture has less protein but more
carbohydrates (von Rhein, 1956; Kunert
and Crailsheim, 1987).
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