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Table 2 Pollen provisions provided to the first and second brood (2009)

From: Born to be bee, fed to be worker? The caste system of a primitively eusocial insect

 

n

Fresh weight

Dry weight

Sugar weight

Proportion of sugar

  

(mg ± SD)

(mg ± SD)

(mg ± SD)

 

First brood

16

125.5 ± 19.9

77.5 ± 12.9

34.3 ± 11.3

43.6 ± 8.4 %

Second brood

16

177.4 ± 37.5

112.3 ± 23.4

40.3 ± 9.4

36.0 ± 4.0 %

  1. n = number of pollen balls.