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Table III
Biotic environmental conditions during the 7 periods of exposure (from E1 to E7) of the glass slides to measure pollen deposition.
| Period | Number of available MF flowers/m2 | Honeybees foraging/1000 flowers/3 min |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cage 1 | Cage 2 | Cage 3 | Cage 4 | Cage 1 | Cage 2 | |
| E1 | 300 | 300 | 450 | 350 | 11.8 | 18.9 |
| E2 | 300 | 325 | 575 | 500 | 12.0 | 15.4 |
| E3 | 300 | 275 | 575 | 500 | 6.7 | 8.9 |
| E4 | 300 | 300 | 450 | 500 | 7.3 | 9.2 |
| E5 | 300 | 200 | 250 | 500 | 8.1 | 16.8 |
| E6 | 150 | 100 | 250 | 275 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
| E7 | 110 | 80 | 220 | 245 | 5.0 | 17.3 |