Abstract
SummaryThe behaviour of nurse bees provisioning honeybee (Apis mellifera) brood cells was studied by using video equipment to make long-terra recordings of individual queen and worker larvae from hatching until the brood cell was sealed. The contents of water, sugars, proteins, lipids and free amino acids were determined for larval food collected from brood cells containing drone, worker or queen larvae.The feeding pattern of queen larvae hardly altered during their development; most feedings occurred during relatively short ( 50 s) duration. In this period a marked decline was observed in the glucose/fructose ratio for worker jelly. After 84 h of larval age, feedings of long duration were interspersed with feedings of short duration. At this stage the ...
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