Abstract
The food hoarding by groups of fifty bees kept in small cages and provided with sugar syrup was studied. Less food was stored in a new comb than in an old one, whether the old comb had been used for storing food or rearing brood, and there was less in drone than in worker combs. The presence of light, larvae and the odour of honey discouraged storage of syrup, but the presence of a queen encouraged it. The amount stored also varied with the environmental temperature, the age of the bees concerned and with their previous physiological and behavioural experience including food deprivation and length of confinement. Increased food in honeystomachs sometimes compensated for less stored in combs.
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