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Walter M. Farina 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1996,38(1):59-64
Dancing and trophallactic behaviour of forager honey bees, Apis mellifera ligustica >Spinola, that returned from an automatic feeder with a regulated flow rate of 50% weight-to-weight sucrose solution (range:
0.76–7.65 μl/min) were studied in an observation hive. Behavioural parameters of dancing, such as probability, duration and
dance tempo, increased with the nectar flow rate, though with very different response curves among bees. For trophallaxis
(i.e. mouth-to-mouth exchange of food), the frequency of giving-contacts and the transfer rate of the nectar increased with
the nectar flow rate. After unloading, foragers often approached other nest mates and begged for food before returning to
the food source. This behaviour was less frequent at higher nectar flow rates. These results show that the profitability of
a food source in terms of nectar flow rate had a quantitative representation in the hive through quantitative changes in trophallactic
and dancing behaviour. The role of trophallaxis as a communication channel during recruitment is discussed.
Received: 14 January 1995/Accepted after revision: 14 August 1995 相似文献
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Christoph Grüter Luis E. Acosta Walter M. Farina 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,60(5):707-715
Transfer of information about food source characteristics within insect societies is essential to colony-foraging success. The food odor communicated within honeybee hives has been shown to be important for food source exploitation. When successful foragers return to the nest and transfer the collected nectar to hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis), potential recruits receiving these samples learn the food odor by associative learning. The food then becomes rapidly distributed among colony members, which is mainly a consequence of the numerous trophallaxes between hive-mates of all ages during food processing. We tested whether the distribution of food among hive mates causes a propagation of olfactory information within the hive. Using the proboscis extension response paradigm, we show that large proportions of bees of the age groups representing the main worker castes, 4 to 9-day-old bees (nurse-aged bees), 12 to 16-day-old bees (food processor-aged bees), and actual foragers (about 17+ day old bees) associatively learn the food odor in the course of processing food that has been collected by only a few foragers. Results further suggest that the information is shared more or less equally between bees of the three age groups. This shows that olfactory information about the flower species exploited by foragers is distributed within the entire colony and is acquired by bees of all age groups, which may influence many behaviors inside and outside the hive. 相似文献
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Mats Olsson 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1994,34(3):169-173
A honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen mates with about ten haploid drones, thus producing colonies composed of about ten subfamilies of super-sisters. An increasing but controversial body of literature supports the views that: (1) Members of each subfamily within a colony can recognise each other, and distinguish supersisters from half-sisters. (2) Members of each subfamily use this recognition information and increase the reproductive fitness of their own subfamily at the expense of half-sisters through behaviour termed nepotism. A mathematical model is developed that shows that task specialisation by subfamilies, and bees that repeatedly undertake the behaviour within subfamilies, can influence the numbers of interactions among super-sisters, relative to the numbers of interactions between half-sisters. The model is then evaluated using a data set pertaining to trophallaxis behaviour in a two-subfamily colony. It is concluded that with this data set, task specialisation and subfamily recognition were indeed confounded, suggesting that the apparent subfamily recognition could easily have been an artefact of task specialisation.
Correspondence to: B.P. Oldroyd 相似文献
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The effects of worker size, age, and crop fullness on the flow of food into the colony were assessed using video recording
and playback. Regardless of the level of colony satiation, small workers seldom had full crops and were more involved in larval
grooming than in food traffic. Large workers played little role in larval care, but tended to be recruited easily to a food
source and to store food in their crops. Medium workers had crops ranging from empty to full because they alternated between
ingesting from and donating food to other colony members. Medium workers were the most versatile, engaging competently in
food recruitment, larval grooming, and larval feeding. They displayed considerable variation in the frequency at which they
fed larvae: some fed a few larvae before switching to other tasks, others fed over a hundred larvae before switching. The
persistence, or lack thereof, of a worker's feeding response suggests a flexibility unaccounted for by the fixed-threshold-response
hypothesis. Worker coverage of the brood pile was a dynamic equilibrium process unaffected by worker size, age, or crop fullness,
or by differences in the nutritional or hygienic states of larvae. In summary, it appeared that worker size and age offered
coarse regulation of task selection by workers, whereas crop fullness, flexible response, and task switching fine-tuned task
selection.
Received: 25 May 1998 / Accepted after revision: 20 August 1998 相似文献
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Joo Rodrigues 《Ecological modelling》2007,200(3-4):384-392
In this paper we present a model that determines the number of potential recruits of Lasius niger, when feeding on a liquid sugar source. The core of the model are two rules: (i) there is a number of workers (facultative foragers) that become potential recruits if starved and (ii) facultative foragers are more likely to become starved than nonforagers because they are more likely to donate food in a trophallaxis (sugar-exchange) event. We develop and explore an analytical model based on these rules, deriving the number of potential recruits after an arbitrary period of starvation. We develop a simplified recruitment model and observe that the predictions of the model are in rough agreement with the empirical data. 相似文献
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Since forager honeybees change their food-unloading behavior according to nectar-source profitability, an experiment was performed in order to analyze whether food-receivers modify their within-hive tasks related to different reward conditions. We offered individual foragers two reward conditions at a rate feeder while an additional feeder offered a constant reward and was of free access to the rest of the hive. Both feeders were the only food sources exploited by the colony during the assays since a flight chamber was used. After receiving nectar, hive bees performed processing cycles that involved several behaviors and concluded when they returned to the delivery area to receive a new food sample. During these cycles, receivers mainly performed oral contacts offering food, or inspected cells, and often both. In the latter case, both behaviors occurred simultaneously and at the same distance from the hive entrance. When they performed a single task, either the occurrence of cell inspections increased or contact offerings decreased for the highest reward rate offered to the donor-forager. Receivers also begged for food more often after interacting with low-profit foragers. Thus, the profitability of the food source exploited by nectar-forager honeybees could affect receiver behaviors within the hives based on individual-to-individual interactions.Communicated by R.F.A. Moritz 相似文献
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Food quality is a relevant characteristic to be transferred within eusocial insect colonies because its evaluation improves
the collective foraging efficiency. In honeybees, colony mates could directly acquire this resource characteristic during
trophallactic encounters with nectar foragers. In the present study, we focused on the gustatory responsiveness of bees that
have unloaded food from incoming foragers. The sugar sensitivity of receiver bees was assessed in the laboratory by using
the proboscis extension response paradigm. After unloading, hive bees were captured either from a colony that foraged freely
in the environmental surroundings or from a colony that foraged at an artificial feeder with a known sucrose solution. In
the first situation, the sugar sensitivity of the hive bees negatively correlated with the sugar concentration of the nectar
crops brought back by forager mates. Similarly, in the controlled situation, the highest sucrose concentration the receivers
accepted during trophallaxis corresponded to the highest thresholds to sucrose. The results indicate that first-order receivers
modify their sugar sensitivity according to the quality of the food previously transferred through trophallaxis by the incoming
foragers. In addition, trophallaxis is a mechanism capable of transferring gustatory information in honeybees. Its implications
at a social scale might involve changes in the social information as well as in nectar distribution within the colony. 相似文献
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Paula C. Díaz Christoph Grüter Walter M. Farina 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(10):1589-1597
Floral scents are important information cues used to organize foraging-related tasks in honeybees. The waggle dance, apart
from encoding spatial information about food sources, might facilitate the transfer of olfactory information by increasing
the dissipation of volatiles brought back by successful foragers. By assuming that food scents are more intensive on specific
body parts of returning foragers, i.e., the posterior legs of pollen foragers and mouthparts of nectar foragers, we quantified
the interactions between hive mates and foragers during dances advertising different types of food sources. For natural sources,
a higher proportion of hive mates contacted the hind legs of pollen dancers (where the pollen loads were located) with their
heads compared to non-pollen dancers. On the other hand, the proportion of head-to-head contacts was higher for non-pollen
foragers during the waggle runs. When the food scent was manipulated, dancers collecting scented sugar solution had a higher
proportion of head-to-head contacts and a lower proportion around their hind legs compared to dancers collecting unscented
solution. The presence of food odors did not affect in-hive behaviors of dancers, but it increased the number of trophallaxes
in-between waggle runs (i.e., during circle phases). These results suggest that the honeybee dance facilitates the olfactory
information transfer between incoming foragers and hive mates, and we propose that excitatory displays in other social insect
species serve the same purpose. While recent empirical and theoretical findings suggested that the colony level foraging benefits
of the spatial information encoded in the waggle dance vary seasonally and with habitats, the role of the dance as a compound
signal not only indicating the presence of a profitable resource but also amplifying the information transfer regarding floral
odors may be important under any ecological circumstances. 相似文献
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