Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts
Forager bees that return from nectar sources transfer the gathered liquid to receiver hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). After returning from a nectar source, several trophallactic events of different lengths usually occur between the incoming forager and hive-mates. No unifi...
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paper:paper_00201812_v48_n4_p360_Farina2023-06-08T14:40:56Z Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts Farina, Walter Marcelo Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier Apis mellifera Foraging Honeybees Thermography Trophallaxis foraging behavior honeybee nectar temperature Apidae Apidae Apis mellifera Apoidea Hymenoptera Hymenoptera Forager bees that return from nectar sources transfer the gathered liquid to receiver hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). After returning from a nectar source, several trophallactic events of different lengths usually occur between the incoming forager and hive-mates. No unified criterion exists so far on the minimum time required for an effective food transfer to actually occur. By means of non-invasive thermographic recordings it was possible to observe that the warm nectar regurgitated by the returning donor forager heated up abruptly the proboscis of the recipient. By using this methodology, we analyzed the increase in the receiver's proboscis temperature as an indicator of effective food transfer between arriving donor foragers and receiver hive mates. Results show that under the present experimental conditions, all contacts lasting more than 3 seconds were effective food transfers, while most contacts lasting 2-3 s (87.5%) also showed liquid food transference. Moreover, even during contacts lasting 1-2 s it was possible for receiver bees to obtain samples of food via trophallaxis. Present results help define more accurately the minimum time required for an oral contact to allow effective food transfer. Fil:Farina, W.M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Wainselboim, A.J. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2001 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00201812_v48_n4_p360_Farina http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00201812_v48_n4_p360_Farina |
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Apis mellifera Foraging Honeybees Thermography Trophallaxis foraging behavior honeybee nectar temperature Apidae Apidae Apis mellifera Apoidea Hymenoptera Hymenoptera |
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Apis mellifera Foraging Honeybees Thermography Trophallaxis foraging behavior honeybee nectar temperature Apidae Apidae Apis mellifera Apoidea Hymenoptera Hymenoptera Farina, Walter Marcelo Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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Apis mellifera Foraging Honeybees Thermography Trophallaxis foraging behavior honeybee nectar temperature Apidae Apidae Apis mellifera Apoidea Hymenoptera Hymenoptera |
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Forager bees that return from nectar sources transfer the gathered liquid to receiver hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). After returning from a nectar source, several trophallactic events of different lengths usually occur between the incoming forager and hive-mates. No unified criterion exists so far on the minimum time required for an effective food transfer to actually occur. By means of non-invasive thermographic recordings it was possible to observe that the warm nectar regurgitated by the returning donor forager heated up abruptly the proboscis of the recipient. By using this methodology, we analyzed the increase in the receiver's proboscis temperature as an indicator of effective food transfer between arriving donor foragers and receiver hive mates. Results show that under the present experimental conditions, all contacts lasting more than 3 seconds were effective food transfers, while most contacts lasting 2-3 s (87.5%) also showed liquid food transference. Moreover, even during contacts lasting 1-2 s it was possible for receiver bees to obtain samples of food via trophallaxis. Present results help define more accurately the minimum time required for an oral contact to allow effective food transfer. |
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Farina, Walter Marcelo Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier |
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Farina, Walter Marcelo Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier |
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Farina, Walter Marcelo |
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Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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Thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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thermographic recordings show that honeybees may receive nectar from foragers even during short trophallactic contacts |
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2001 |
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