Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour?
When forager honeybees (Apis mellifera) return to the hive after a successful foraging trip, they unload the collected liquid to recipient hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). The speed at which the liquid is transferred (unloading rate) from donor to recipient is related to th...
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todo:paper_03407594_v189_n1_p39_Wainselboim2023-10-03T15:26:00Z Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour? Wainselboim, A.J. Roces, F. Farina, W.M. Foraging Honeybees Profitability Trophallaxis Unloading rate sucrose animal article bee comparative study eating feeding behavior flying food learning long term memory physiology reward social behavior time Animals Bees Eating Feeding Behavior Flight, Animal Food Retention (Psychology) Reversal Learning Reward Social Behavior Sucrose Time Factors When forager honeybees (Apis mellifera) return to the hive after a successful foraging trip, they unload the collected liquid to recipient hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). The speed at which the liquid is transferred (unloading rate) from donor to recipient is related to the profitability of the recently visited food source. Two main characteristics that define this profitability are the flow of solution delivered by the feeder and the time invested by the forager at the source (visit time). To investigate the effect of visit time on trophallactic behaviour, donor foragers were trained to a rate feeder that could deliver different flows of solution. We dissociated visit time and flow of solution by introducing pauses in the solution's deliverance at different moments of the foraging visit. We analysed whether timing of the non-deliverance period within the visit is important for the forager's assessment of resource profitability. During the subsequent trophallactic encounter with a hive mate, unloading rate was related to the total time invested by the forager at the food source only if the ingestion process had already been started. These results together with previous ones suggest that foragers integrate an overall flow rate of solution of the feeder throughout the entire foraging visit. Fil:Wainselboim, A.J. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Roces, F. 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. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_03407594_v189_n1_p39_Wainselboim |
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Foraging Honeybees Profitability Trophallaxis Unloading rate sucrose animal article bee comparative study eating feeding behavior flying food learning long term memory physiology reward social behavior time Animals Bees Eating Feeding Behavior Flight, Animal Food Retention (Psychology) Reversal Learning Reward Social Behavior Sucrose Time Factors |
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Foraging Honeybees Profitability Trophallaxis Unloading rate sucrose animal article bee comparative study eating feeding behavior flying food learning long term memory physiology reward social behavior time Animals Bees Eating Feeding Behavior Flight, Animal Food Retention (Psychology) Reversal Learning Reward Social Behavior Sucrose Time Factors Wainselboim, A.J. Roces, F. Farina, W.M. Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour? |
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Foraging Honeybees Profitability Trophallaxis Unloading rate sucrose animal article bee comparative study eating feeding behavior flying food learning long term memory physiology reward social behavior time Animals Bees Eating Feeding Behavior Flight, Animal Food Retention (Psychology) Reversal Learning Reward Social Behavior Sucrose Time Factors |
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When forager honeybees (Apis mellifera) return to the hive after a successful foraging trip, they unload the collected liquid to recipient hive mates through mouth-to-mouth contacts (trophallaxis). The speed at which the liquid is transferred (unloading rate) from donor to recipient is related to the profitability of the recently visited food source. Two main characteristics that define this profitability are the flow of solution delivered by the feeder and the time invested by the forager at the source (visit time). To investigate the effect of visit time on trophallactic behaviour, donor foragers were trained to a rate feeder that could deliver different flows of solution. We dissociated visit time and flow of solution by introducing pauses in the solution's deliverance at different moments of the foraging visit. We analysed whether timing of the non-deliverance period within the visit is important for the forager's assessment of resource profitability. During the subsequent trophallactic encounter with a hive mate, unloading rate was related to the total time invested by the forager at the food source only if the ingestion process had already been started. These results together with previous ones suggest that foragers integrate an overall flow rate of solution of the feeder throughout the entire foraging visit. |
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Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour? |
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Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour? |
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Assessment of food source profitability in honeybees (Apis mellifera): How does disturbance of foraging activity affect trophallactic behaviour? |
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