> Adult bee numbers and honey in store were only significantly related in the active season when both were increasing rapidly. Afterwards, of all the factors measured only honey in store did not decrease markedly, significant correlations between honey in store, and bees, brood, or pollen would therefore appear unlikely. A mean 3 kg of pollen per colony was harvested throughout the active pollen gathering season in traps rated as 10% efficient (Free 1967), indicating that colonies gathered about 30 kg of pollen per annum. 

> pollen trapped [is] more closely related to brood reared (Free 1967; Todd & Reed 1970), implying that a relatively small variable fraction of the adult bees was normally involved in pollen foraging. Free & Williams (1975) claimed that pollen in store was related to worker bee population, however, no significant correlation between them was found (Table 1) and a graphical examination of the data (Figs 1 and 2) confirmed this. Larger colonies probably collected relatively less pollen because nutrient imbalances are normally reduced with greater intakes of different dietary components

> (3) About 30 kg of pollen was necessary for brood and adult requirements throughout the season. (4) Pollen in store reached a maximum of 2 kg at maximum brood rearing and declined to about 0 75 kg for overwintering. (5) Adult bees and brood, and adult bees and honey stored, were only related (P < 0 05) in the first half of the season while adult bees, pollen stored and pollen trapped, were not significantly related, neither were brood, pollen stored, pollen trapped nor honey stored, although patterns of pollen storing, pollen trapping and brood rearing were similar

Journal of Applied Ecology (1978), 15, 155-161 GROWTH AND DECLINE OF HONEYBEE COLONIES AND INTER-RELATIONSHIPS OF ADULT BEES, BROOD, HONEY AND POLLEN BY A. R. McLELLAN
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