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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Experimental design and summary of diet treatments provided to B. terrestris. Each micro-colony consisted of 5 workers fed for 35 days. Mortality, offspring production, and resource collection (i.e., pollen and syrup) were monitored during or at the end of the bioassays.