Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions
Information exchange of environmental cues facilitates decision-making processes among members of insect societies. In honeybee foraging, it is unknown how the odor cues of a resource are relayed to inactive nest mates to enable resource exploitation at specific scented sources. It is presumed that...
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paper:paper_03405443_v66_n3_p445_Balbuena2023-06-08T15:34:03Z Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions Balbuena, Maria Sol Molinas, Julieta Farina, Walter Marcelo Apis mellifera Communication Decision making Foraging Honeybee Social interactions communication behavior correlation decision making environmental cue exploitation feeding behavior foraging behavior honeybee integrated approach recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Hexapoda Information exchange of environmental cues facilitates decision-making processes among members of insect societies. In honeybee foraging, it is unknown how the odor cues of a resource are relayed to inactive nest mates to enable resource exploitation at specific scented sources. It is presumed that bees need to follow the dance or to be involved in trophallaxis with a successful forager to obtain the discovered floral scent. With this in mind, we evaluated the influence of food scent relayed through in-hive interactions and the subsequent food choices. Results obtained from five colonies demonstrated that bees arriving at a feeding area preferred to land at a feeder carrying the odor currently exploited by the trained forager. The bees that landed at this feeder also showed more in-hive encounters with the trained forager than the individuals that landed at the alternative scented feeder. The most frequent interactions before landing at the correct feeder were body contacts with the active forager, a behavior that involves neither dance following nor trophallaxis. In addition, a reasonable proportion of successful newcomers showed no conspicuous interactions with the active forager. Results suggest that different sources of information can be integrated inside the hive to establish an odor-rewarded association useful to direct honeybees to a feeding site. For example, simple contacts with foragers or food exchanges with non-active foragers seem to be enough to choose a feeding site that carries the same scent collected by the focal forager. © 2011 Springer-Verlag. Fil:Balbuena, M.S. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Molinas, J. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Farina, W.M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2012 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03405443_v66_n3_p445_Balbuena http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_03405443_v66_n3_p445_Balbuena |
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Apis mellifera Communication Decision making Foraging Honeybee Social interactions communication behavior correlation decision making environmental cue exploitation feeding behavior foraging behavior honeybee integrated approach recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Hexapoda |
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Apis mellifera Communication Decision making Foraging Honeybee Social interactions communication behavior correlation decision making environmental cue exploitation feeding behavior foraging behavior honeybee integrated approach recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Hexapoda Balbuena, Maria Sol Molinas, Julieta Farina, Walter Marcelo Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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Apis mellifera Communication Decision making Foraging Honeybee Social interactions communication behavior correlation decision making environmental cue exploitation feeding behavior foraging behavior honeybee integrated approach recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Hexapoda |
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Information exchange of environmental cues facilitates decision-making processes among members of insect societies. In honeybee foraging, it is unknown how the odor cues of a resource are relayed to inactive nest mates to enable resource exploitation at specific scented sources. It is presumed that bees need to follow the dance or to be involved in trophallaxis with a successful forager to obtain the discovered floral scent. With this in mind, we evaluated the influence of food scent relayed through in-hive interactions and the subsequent food choices. Results obtained from five colonies demonstrated that bees arriving at a feeding area preferred to land at a feeder carrying the odor currently exploited by the trained forager. The bees that landed at this feeder also showed more in-hive encounters with the trained forager than the individuals that landed at the alternative scented feeder. The most frequent interactions before landing at the correct feeder were body contacts with the active forager, a behavior that involves neither dance following nor trophallaxis. In addition, a reasonable proportion of successful newcomers showed no conspicuous interactions with the active forager. Results suggest that different sources of information can be integrated inside the hive to establish an odor-rewarded association useful to direct honeybees to a feeding site. For example, simple contacts with foragers or food exchanges with non-active foragers seem to be enough to choose a feeding site that carries the same scent collected by the focal forager. © 2011 Springer-Verlag. |
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Balbuena, Maria Sol Molinas, Julieta Farina, Walter Marcelo |
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Balbuena, Maria Sol Molinas, Julieta Farina, Walter Marcelo |
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Balbuena, Maria Sol |
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Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: Correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions |
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2012 |
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