--- On Tue, 11/15/11, Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -- excerpted from "Food manipulation in honeybees induces
> physiological responses at the individual and colony
> level". Laura Evins WILLARD et al. Apidologie (2011)
> 42:508–518
reply:
This is where long term experiments have to be done. For when pollen gets short the nurse bees take nutrients from their own bodies for using and unless you have seen this scenario which needs to be part of the experiment to get a whole picture, you cannot actually relate to pollen deficinecies and what it does. For with no pollen once nurse bees bodies used up, hives collapse, and this has been written about for decades way back to turn of 1900s even.
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