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DOI	10.3390/insects15050361
	Enhancing Honey Bee Health: Evaluating Pollen Substitute Diets in Field and Cage Experiments
	Kim, Hyunjee; Frunze, Olga; Lee, Jeong-Hyeon; Kwon, Hyung-Wook
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2075-4450
起始页码	15
结束页码	5
卷号	15 期号:5
英文摘要	Simple Summary Globally, honey bee colonies face numerous threats, such as habitat loss, diseases, chemical exposure, and climate change, with malnutrition being a significant factor in colony decline. Beekeepers struggle to provide adequate pollen during seasonal pollen dearth when it is not readily available to honey bees, prompting the use of pollen substitute diets to support colonies. Our study compared a new pollen substitute diet with a control through field and cage experiments, finding that Diet 1 significantly improved honey bee health. This was evidenced by an increase in population, a greater brood area, higher consumption levels, preference, altered colony weight, honey production, honey bee weight (dried head and thorax), and vitellogenin expression levels. These improvements were correlated with the amino acid content of each diet, offering potential solutions to boost honey bee health and combat colony decline.Abstract Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) play vital roles as agricultural pollinators and honey producers. However, global colony losses are increasing due to multiple stressors, including malnutrition. Our study evaluated the effects of four pollen substitute diets (Diet 1, Diet 2, Diet 3, and Control) through field and cage experiments, analyzing 11 parameters and 21 amino acids. Notably, Diet 1 demonstrated significantly superior performance in the field experiment, including the number of honey bees, brood area, consumption, preference, colony weight, and honey production. In the cage experiment, Diet 1 also showed superior performance in dried head and thorax weight and vitellogenin (vg) gene expression levels. Canonical discriminant and principle component analyses highlighted Diet 1's distinctiveness, with histidine, diet digestibility, consumption, vg gene expression levels, and isoleucine identified as key factors. Arginine showed significant correlations with a wide range of parameters, including the number of honey bees, brood area, and consumption, with Diet 1 exhibiting higher levels. Diet 1, containing apple juice, soytide, and Chlorella as additive components, outperformed the other diets, suggesting an enhanced formulation for pollen substitute diets. These findings hold promise for the development of more effective diets, potentially contributing to honey bee health.
英文关键词	honey bee; pollen substitute diets; nutrition; health; development; amino acid contents
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Entomology
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS记录号	WOS:001232281500001
来源期刊	INSECTS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/304135
作者单位	Incheon National University; Incheon National University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kim, Hyunjee,Frunze, Olga,Lee, Jeong-Hyeon,et al. Enhancing Honey Bee Health: Evaluating Pollen Substitute Diets in Field and Cage Experiments[J],2024,15(5).
APA	Kim, Hyunjee,Frunze, Olga,Lee, Jeong-Hyeon,&Kwon, Hyung-Wook.(2024).Enhancing Honey Bee Health: Evaluating Pollen Substitute Diets in Field and Cage Experiments.INSECTS,15(5).
MLA	Kim, Hyunjee,et al."Enhancing Honey Bee Health: Evaluating Pollen Substitute Diets in Field and Cage Experiments".INSECTS 15.5(2024).