Individual honey bee (Apis cerana) foragers adjust their fuel load to match variability in forage reward.

Results Whether or not the sucrose concentration available at a familiar feeding station was constant, or varied over time, had a highly significant ( P < 0.001) effect on the volume, sugar concentration and amount of glucose-equivalent sugar carried by departing foragers ( Table 1 , Fig. 1 ).

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