Feeding with plant powders increases longevity and body weight of Western honeybee workers (Apis mellifera)

# Feeding with plant powders increases longevity and body weight of Western honeybee workers (Apis mellifera) The dataset contains Sucrose consumption data, Survival Data, and Dry Weight data ## Description of the data and file structure All data are found an excel sheet, with tabs for the sucrose consumption, survival, and dry weight. **Sucrose consumption tab**: Here, there are 4 variables: **cage** (unique ID for each experimental cage), **treatment** (plant species), **day** (time point of measurement), and **loss** (amount of food consumed in milligrams / bee). **Survival tab**: Here, there are 4 variables: **cage** (unique ID for each experimental cage), **treatment** (plant species), **day** (time point of measurement), **individual** (unique ID assigned to bee in the order they died, i.e. #1 = first bee to die in cage), **removed** (how many bees died / were removed at that time point), and **status** (o = right censored, 1 = died naturally). **Dry Weight tab** : Here, there are 4 variables: **cage** (unique ID for each experimental cage), **treatment** (plant species), **day** (time point of measurement), **dry weight** (weight of each individual in milligrams), **ID** (first number is associated to cage, the second number is associated to the **individual** removed, and there were 3 individuals per cage, e.g: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3). ## Code/Software All code was done in R. See attached R code file called "Final Plant Powders 2024"