| comparative sucrose responsiveness in apis mellifera and a. cerana foragers. | in the european honey bee, apis mellifera, pollen foragers have a higher sucrose responsiveness than nectar foragers when tested using a proboscis extension response (per) assay. in addition, africanized honey bees have a higher sucrose responsiveness than european honey bees. based on the biology of the eastern honey bee, a. cerana, we hypothesized that a. cerana should also have a higher responsiveness to sucrose than a. mellifera. to test this hypothesis, we compared the sucrose thresholds of ... | 2013 | 24194958 |