: bitter yellowish-brown pollen stored up in honeycomb cells and used mixed with honey by bees as food
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Larvae fed a diet of rich royal jelly develop into queens, whereas larvae that eat a less refined diet of ‘beebread’ and pollen develop into worker bees.
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Chao Yan,
Scientific American,
17 June 2020
Over the course of the experiment, pesticide residues declined, eventually becoming non-detectable within colonies’ beebread and honey.
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Gwen Pearson,
WIRED,
18 Mar. 2015
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Chao Yan,
Scientific American,
17 June 2020
Over the course of the experiment, pesticide residues declined, eventually becoming non-detectable within colonies’ beebread and honey.
—
Gwen Pearson,
WIRED,
18 Mar. 2015
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beebread
noun
bee·bread
ˈbē-ˌbred 
: a bitter yellowish brown pollen mixture stored in honeycomb cells and used with honey by bees as food
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