Are honey bees' foraging preferences affected by pollen amino acid composition?

By Samantha M. Cook, C. Awmack, D. Murray, I. Williams. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees (2014, background): “1999), although amino acid composition could better determine the pollen required by bees (Cook et al. 2003; Nicolson 2011).”
Influence of different pollen diets on the development of hypopharyngeal glands and size of acid gland sacs in caged honey bees (Apis mellifera) (2017, background): “Schmidt (1982) reported that the honey bee’s preference for a type of pollen was not based on its protein content, but Cook et al. (2003) demonstrated that foraging preferences could reflect pollen quality.”
Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees (2017, background): “For example, Cook et al. (2003) found that honeybees preferred pollen species containing a higher concentration of essential amino acids only when they had previous experience of foraging on this pollen type.”
Pollen as an alternative or supplementary food for the mirid predator Macrolophus pygmaeus. (2010, background): “Pollen of Brassica spp. is known to be a valuable food source for honeybees (e.g. Cook et al., 2003) and bumble bees (e.g. Rasmont et al., 2005), but little is known on the value of Anacardiaceae pollens for insects.”
Pollen nutrition and colony development in honey bees: part 1 (2005, methodology): “In choice experiments, honey bees were offered pollen from rape (Brassica napus) and broad bean (Vicia faba).(11) Rape pollen was considered to be of higher nutritional value because it contained a greater proportion of essential amino acids.”
Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two (2011, background): “…by de Groot (1953); these can be compared with data on the amino acid composition of various pollens, usually bee-collected pollens in which a nectar or glandular origin of amino acids cannot be ruled out (Loper & Cohen 1987; Cook et al. 2003; Human & Nicolson 2006; Somerville & Nicol 2006).”