How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'

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Apis mellifera bees perform dances to communicate the presence of desirable nectar sources. The regulation of these dances does not depend exclusively on properties of the nectar sources, but also upon certain stimuli derived from the foraging status of the colony as a whole; i.e. bees exploiting a...

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Autor principal: De Marco, R.J.
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Publicado: 2006
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Apis mellifera
Colony's nectar influx
Dance behaviour
Trophallaxis
animal
animal communication
article
bee
chemistry
feeding behavior
flower
food
motor activity
physiology
Animal Communication
Animals
Bees
Feeding Behavior
Flowers
Food
Motor Activity
Apoidea
Hexapoda
Insecta
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00220949_v209_n3_p421_DeMarco
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spelling paperaa:paper_00220949_v209_n3_p421_DeMarco2023-06-12T16:43:43Z How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness' J. Exp. Biol. 2006;209(3):421-432 De Marco, R.J. Apis mellifera Colony's nectar influx Dance behaviour Trophallaxis animal animal communication article bee chemistry feeding behavior flower food motor activity physiology Animal Communication Animals Bees Feeding Behavior Flowers Food Motor Activity Apis mellifera Apoidea Hexapoda Insecta Apis mellifera bees perform dances to communicate the presence of desirable nectar sources. The regulation of these dances does not depend exclusively on properties of the nectar sources, but also upon certain stimuli derived from the foraging status of the colony as a whole; i.e. bees exploiting a source of constant profitability are more likely to dance when the colony's nectar intake rate is low. Based on these stimuli, individual bees tune their dances according to their colony's nectar influx without visiting alternative nectar sources. Division of labour, in addition, is a common feature in honeybees. Upon returning to the nest, successful foragers transfer the content of their crops to food-receivers by means of a common behaviour in social insects called trophallaxis, i.e. the transfer of liquid food by mouth. Martin Lindauer stated that a returned forager may sense the foraging status of its colony on the basis of the food transfer process by computing how quickly and eagerly the food-receivers unload its crop. This study focuses on the forager's experience during the food transfer process, its variability based on the colony's nectar influx, and the separate effects that the 'ease' and the 'eagerness' of the food-unloading have on the tuning of recruitment dances. Results indicate that foragers can rapidly sense variations in the colony's nectar influx, even when they experience no variation in the time interval between their return to the hive and the beginning of the food transfer. To accomplish this task they appear to use stimuli derived from the number of food-receivers, which enable them, in turn, to set their dance thresholds in relation to the nectar influx of their colony. The relevance of these findings is discussed in the context of communication and successful foraging. Fil:De Marco, R.J. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2006 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00220949_v209_n3_p421_DeMarco
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topic Apis mellifera
Colony's nectar influx
Dance behaviour
Trophallaxis
animal
animal communication
article
bee
chemistry
feeding behavior
flower
food
motor activity
physiology
Animal Communication
Animals
Bees
Feeding Behavior
Flowers
Food
Motor Activity
Apis mellifera
Apoidea
Hexapoda
Insecta
spellingShingle Apis mellifera
Colony's nectar influx
Dance behaviour
Trophallaxis
animal
animal communication
article
bee
chemistry
feeding behavior
flower
food
motor activity
physiology
Animal Communication
Animals
Bees
Feeding Behavior
Flowers
Food
Motor Activity
Apis mellifera
Apoidea
Hexapoda
Insecta
De Marco, R.J.
How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'
topic_facet Apis mellifera
Colony's nectar influx
Dance behaviour
Trophallaxis
animal
animal communication
article
bee
chemistry
feeding behavior
flower
food
motor activity
physiology
Animal Communication
Animals
Bees
Feeding Behavior
Flowers
Food
Motor Activity
Apis mellifera
Apoidea
Hexapoda
Insecta
description Apis mellifera bees perform dances to communicate the presence of desirable nectar sources. The regulation of these dances does not depend exclusively on properties of the nectar sources, but also upon certain stimuli derived from the foraging status of the colony as a whole; i.e. bees exploiting a source of constant profitability are more likely to dance when the colony's nectar intake rate is low. Based on these stimuli, individual bees tune their dances according to their colony's nectar influx without visiting alternative nectar sources. Division of labour, in addition, is a common feature in honeybees. Upon returning to the nest, successful foragers transfer the content of their crops to food-receivers by means of a common behaviour in social insects called trophallaxis, i.e. the transfer of liquid food by mouth. Martin Lindauer stated that a returned forager may sense the foraging status of its colony on the basis of the food transfer process by computing how quickly and eagerly the food-receivers unload its crop. This study focuses on the forager's experience during the food transfer process, its variability based on the colony's nectar influx, and the separate effects that the 'ease' and the 'eagerness' of the food-unloading have on the tuning of recruitment dances. Results indicate that foragers can rapidly sense variations in the colony's nectar influx, even when they experience no variation in the time interval between their return to the hive and the beginning of the food transfer. To accomplish this task they appear to use stimuli derived from the number of food-receivers, which enable them, in turn, to set their dance thresholds in relation to the nectar influx of their colony. The relevance of these findings is discussed in the context of communication and successful foraging.
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title_short How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'
title_full How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'
title_fullStr How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'
title_full_unstemmed How bees tune their dancing according to their colony's nectar influx: Re-examining the role of the food-receivers' 'eagerness'
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