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Homing performance.

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posted on 2014-08-06, 02:57 authored by Stephan Wolf, Dino P. McMahon, Ka S. Lim, Christopher D. Pull, Suzanne J. Clark, Robert J. Paxton, Juliet L. Osborne

Percentage of non-returning bees during homing flights per treatment group (sample sizes: Nc: 38; C_GE: 32; C_S: 35). A significantly higher proportion (X² = 12.3, d.f. = 2, p = 0.002) of bees inoculated with Nosema ceranae failed to return to the colony as compared to the control bees.