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 |