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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Sugar the bee's knees for
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<LI>May 15, 2009 </LI></UL><BOD>
<P>THE honey bee is a more efficient pollinator when fed sugar, according to
research that could boost Australian agricultural production.</P>
<P>Scientists from New Zealand's Plant and Food Research institute have found
that providing a honey bee colony with sugar syrup promoted a change in
behaviour in forager bees, which began collecting pollen over nectar.</P>
<P>Honey bees are essential to pollination of fruit and seed crops. "Pretty much
all of horticulture and just about all of cropping requires honey bees for
pollination," apiculturalist Mark Goodwin said. "By feeding them sugar, the bees
in the hive are too busy using the sugar to receive nectar from the workers.
This gives the signal that nectar is not needed, so the workers switch to
collecting pollen, increasing the amount transferred between plants," Dr Goodwin
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