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Honeybees prefer warmer nectar and less viscous nectar, regardless of sugar concentration

The internal temperature of flowers may be higher than air temperature, and warmer nectar could offer energetic advantages for honeybee thermoregulation, as well as being easier to drink owing to its lower viscosity. We investigated the responses of Apis mellifera scutellata (10 colonies) to warmed...

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Main Authors: Nicolson, Susan W., de Veer, Leo, Köhler, Angela, Pirk, Christian W. W.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735266/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23902913
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1597
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