Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees
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...
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todo:paper_03405443_v55_n6_p574_Pirez2023-10-03T15:25:39Z Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees Pírez, N. Farina, W.M. Apis mellifera Food source profitability Nectar processing Task partitioning Trophallaxis behavioral ecology food quality foraging behavior honeybee intraspecific interaction social behavior trophallaxis Apis Apis mellifera Apoidea 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. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_03405443_v55_n6_p574_Pirez |
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Apis mellifera Food source profitability Nectar processing Task partitioning Trophallaxis behavioral ecology food quality foraging behavior honeybee intraspecific interaction social behavior trophallaxis Apis Apis mellifera Apoidea |
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Apis mellifera Food source profitability Nectar processing Task partitioning Trophallaxis behavioral ecology food quality foraging behavior honeybee intraspecific interaction social behavior trophallaxis Apis Apis mellifera Apoidea Pírez, N. Farina, W.M. Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees |
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Apis mellifera Food source profitability Nectar processing Task partitioning Trophallaxis behavioral ecology food quality foraging behavior honeybee intraspecific interaction social behavior trophallaxis Apis Apis mellifera Apoidea |
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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. |
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Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees |
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Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees |
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