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Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:24:41 -0400
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For those truly interested in how honey bees digest protein this paper is informative on many levels.  Another great reference is Chapter 9 (Honey Bee Nutrition) in the latest edition of the Hive and the Honey Bee which amounts to an extensive literature review including Crailsheim's work and the work of hundreds of others. 

Summary from the paper:

>For honey bee workers, protein requirements and consumption, digestion, intestinal absorption and utilization all depend on the worker’s age and >functional status in the system of division of labor within the colony. Workers at the stage of nurses play a pivotal role not only in protein digestion but >also in its distribution. They are well equipped for digestion of pollen, are rich in protein and produce large amounts of jelly, which they distribute to almost >all members of the colony.

Crailsheim, K. "The protein balance of the honey bee worker." Apidologie 21.5 (1990): 417-429.

https://www.apidologie.org/articles/apido/pdf/1990/05/Apidologie_0044-8435_1990_21_5_ART0004.pdf

Bill Hesbach
Cheshire, CT
Northeast USA 

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