Table 2.
Average number of yeast colonies recovered from the specified number of bee bread and related samples.
| Fresh Bee Bread 1 n = 28 | Aged Bee Bread 2 n = 107 | Pollen Pellets n = 12 | Honey Stomach n = 14 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samples | Colonies 3 | Samples | Colonies 3 | Samples | Colonies | Samples | Colonies | |
| Metschnikowia | ||||||||
| Metschnikowia (Candida) rancensis | 3 | 100 | 1 | 50 | ||||
| Metschnikowia cf. pulcherrima | 9 | 74.4 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Starmerella | ||||||||
| Starmerella (Candida) apicola | 10 | 36.5 | 1 | 0.7 | ||||
| Starmerella (Candida) apis | 18 | 229.8 | ||||||
| Starmerella (Candida) bombi | 2 | 4.7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Starmerella (Candida) magnoliae | 10 | 62.4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Starmerella bombicola | 5 | 26.5 | 3 | >200 | ||||
| Zygosaccharomyces | ||||||||
| Zygosaccharomyces favi | 6 | 3.3 | ||||||
| Zygosaccharomyces mellis | 2 | 40.3 | 3 | 121 | ||||
| Zygosaccharomyces rouxii | 2 | 46 | 6 | 24.3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Zygosaccharomyces sapae | 5 | 102 | ||||||
| Zygosaccharomyces siamensis | 1 | 0.3 | 5 | 14.3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Other | ||||||||
| Aureobasidium pullulans | 1 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Candida parapsilosis | 1 4 | |||||||
| Debaryomyces hansenii | 9 | 5 | ||||||
| Debaryomyces sp. | 2 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Debaryomyces maramus | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Dothiora prunorum | 2 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Hanseniaspora uvarum | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Kluyveromyces dobzhanskii | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Kodamaea ohmeri | 8 | 35.4 | ||||||
| Meyerozyma guilliermondii | 1 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Naganishia (Cryptococcus) diffluens | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Rhodotorula mucilaginosa | 2 4 | |||||||
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 1 | >200 | ||||||
1 Fresh bee bread: one to seven days, 2 Aged bee bread: > 20 days old. 3 Colony counts averaged from triplicate cultures, based on morphological types and therefore to be considered as estimates.4 Detected in liquid medium, no colony count performed.