ArticleInsects2021
The Importance of Time and Place: Nutrient Composition and Utilization of Seasonal Pollens by European Honey Bees (
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- A technical semi-field methodology to measure the effect of nutrition on honey bee brood rearing.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
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- Antioxidant Potential of Pollen Polyphenols in Mitigating Environmental Stress in Honeybees (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Honey bee egg composition changes seasonally and after acute maternal virus infection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pollen-Derived Fatty Acids and Amino Acids Mediate Variance in Pollinator Visitation.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Climate change-induced stress in the honey beeFrontiers in physiology · 2025Review
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- Acetylcholine and choline in honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker brood food are seasonal and age-dependent.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pollen foraging preferences in honey bees and the nutrient profiles of the pollen.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Floral volatiles evoke partially similar responses in both florivores and pollinators and are correlated with non-volatile reward chemicals.Annals of botany · 2023Review
- Identification of runs of homozygosity in Western honey bees (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Developing Strategies to Help Bee Colony Resilience in Changing Environments.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Viral species differentially influence macronutrient preferences based on honey bee genotype.Biology open · 2022Article
- Effects of Pollen Deprivation in Groups of Tellian (Insects · 2022Article
- Evaluation of queen cell acceptance and royal jelly production between hygienic and non-hygienic honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies.PloS one · 2022Article
- Butenolide Insecticide Flupyradifurone Affects Honey Bee Worker Antiviral Immunity and Survival.Frontiers in insect science · 2022Article
- Colony-Level Viral Load Influences Collective Foraging in Honey Bees.Frontiers in insect science · 2022Article
- A Potential Fungal ProbioticJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Honey bee colonies have a yearly cycle that is supported nutritionally by the seasonal progression of flowering plants. In the spring, colonies grow by rearing brood, but in the fall, brood rearing declines in preparation for overwintering. Depending on where colonies are located, the yearly cycle can differ especially in overwintering activities. In temperate climates of Europe and North America, colonies reduce or end brood rearing in the fall while in warmer climates bees can rear brood and forage throughout the year. To test the hypothesis that nutrients available in seasonal pollens and honey bee responses to them can differ we analyzed pollen in the spring and fall collected by colonies in environments where brood rearing either stops in the fall (Iowa) or continues through the winter (Arizona). We fed both types of pollen to worker offspring of queens that emerged and open mated in each type of environment. We measured physiological responses to test if they differed depending on the location and season when the pollen was collected and the queen line of the workers that consumed it. Specifically, we measured pollen and protein consumption, gene expression levels (
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