All right. There is one author, an excellent researchers on bee nutrition,
that present doubts about the introduction of pollen in the brood food.
However his doubts generate more doubts.

I think it is a matter of testing. Probably, seldom, could be, usually,
apparently, may are not a NO or NEVER, therefore the subject requires
further research.

Particularly interesting are the drones larvae - prefered by varroa - but
"older drone larvae usually have considerably more pollen in their food than
worker larvae of the same age. Nurse bees *apparently *recognize the sex
(39) and the caste (120) of larvae and *may *exercise some choice in feeding
pollen to larvae of different castes."



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