Table 1. Carbohydrate diets fed to honey bees.

Treatment code	Cage replicates	Diet	Sucrose (%)	MGO (mg/kg)	DHA (mg/kg)
H	5	Hive diet: honey frame above the brood nest	Unknownʘ	_	_
IS	8	20 ml of 67°B bulk invert sugar (NSFGIVB5BULK)	0	_	_
S	8	20 ml of 50% sucrose solution	50	_	_
MH15	8	20 g of 100% mānuka honey from 2015	<1–15 ‡	745	1238
MH17	8	20 g of 100% mānuka honey from 2017	<1–15 ‡	394	1692
MGO	8	20 ml of 745 mg MGO/kg 50% sucrose solution*	~50	745	_
DHA	8	20 ml of 1692 mg DHA/kg 50% sucrose solution	~50	_	1692

^ʘ The hive was not fed supplementary sources of sucrose throughout the spring.

‡ Percent sucrose (w/w) was based on mānuka honey analysis in the literature [46–48].

* 0.931 ml 40% aqueous MGO + 499.17 ml 50% S).