Ok, there is a lot of confusion in the literature WRT larval feeding.  Is there a definitive description of what/how the larvae are fed?  Most descriptions seem to say that bee milk is supplemented with honey and pollen (sometimes described as "regurgitated").  Some say they are only fed bee milk.
Certainly the nurse bees are consuming a lot of honey and pollen to produce bee milk, but does it get directly fed to larvae (raw or predigested)?
I wouldn't quite assume that what we see in queen cells (just bee milk) is what workers are fed, especially before they are capped.

deknow

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