TABLE 1.

Microbial community richness and diversity measures for each sampled environment in the honey bee hive^a

Sample	Microbial community richness and diversity measurement
	Chao1		Inverse Simpson		Bray-Curtis
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Bee bread	37.667	23.544	2.2372	1.7716	0.8008	0.2033
Brood cell	90.503	66.414	4.1760	1.6069	0.5985	0.0996
Larvae	12.083	13.220	1.7666	0.5928	0.6842	0.2725
Nurse gut	10.000	8.8882	1.4677	0.3536	0.1921	0.0286

^aEach metric was calculated for individual replicates and averaged within each environment. Chao1 estimates show the expected taxon richness within each environment. Inverse Simpson results are a measure of diversity, with a higher number indicating greater diversity. The Bray-Curtis results represent the dissimilarity found in pairwise comparisons between samples from the same environment and highlight the consistency of the nurse gut replicates.