Effect of formic acid treatment on Apis mellifera foraging behavior using nanopore metabarcoding technologies
Fig 5
Bar charts showing the taxonomic presence of plant genera identified from DNA sequences of pollen samples collected from honeybees after foraging.
Each of the plots represent individual honeybee hives before and after Formic Acid or control treatment. Hives (A) ‘Km’ and (B) ‘Hm’ represent the control group, while hives (C) ‘Ke’ and (D) ‘Ks’ receive Formic Acid treatment. For each hive, the left side of the plot represents pollen collected before treatment, and the right side represents pollen collected at the end of the treatment period. Bar length corresponds to the relative read abundance of each plant genus, log10-normalized. The y-axis lists all plant genera identified in the study. Difference between the left and right sides of each plot indicates changes in genera identified from the pollen following treatment.