Die gegenseitige Verst�ndigung bei den stachellosen Bienen

Lindauer, Martin; Kerr, Warwick Estevam

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“…According to Lindauer and Kerr (1958) foragers of Scaptotrigona postica started scent marking near the feeding site and on their way back to the nest (scent path) after only 11 visits to the food source. In our choice experiments four foragers fed at the food source until they completed a total of 20 visits which amounts to an average of five visits per bee.…”

Section: Chemical Markings At the Feeding Sitementioning

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“…depilis) marque la source de nourriture en plus de la piste odorante. De nombreuses espèces d'abeilles sans aiguillon laissent une piste odorante pour indiquer le chemin d'une source de nourriture (Lindauer et Kerr, 1958). Jusqu'à présent on ignore si le marquage odorant des pistes constitue le seul indicateur chimique utilisé par les abeilles pour trouver des sources de nourriture.…”

Section: Ecology Of Foraging Strategiesunclassified

“…Species of the genus Scaptotrigona (Apidae, Meliponinae) are surprisingly efficient in scent trail recruitment, when the number of bees recruited to a food source in a given time (Lindauer andKerr, 1958, 1960;Jarau et al, 2003) and the precision of food source localization (Lindauer and Kerr, 1958;Kerr et al, 1963) are taken as measures. Aiming at a better understanding of the chemical signals used for scent trail marking, the contents of Scaptotrigona's mandibular glands (Luby et al, 1973) and head extracts (Franke et al, 1983) were analyzed.…”

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“…In contrast with Scaptotrigona, bees of the genus Melipona do not lay scent trails (Lindauer and Kerr, 1958;Nieh and Roubik, 1995;Hrncir et al, 2000). However, scent beacons at the food source have been described for several species Sommeijer, 1996, 2001;Nieh, 1998).…”

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A stingless bee marks the feeding site in addition to the scent path (Scaptotrigona aff. depilis)

2003

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-Scaptotrigona depilis uses a scent trail to guide newly recruited bees to a food source. (i) Behavioral experiments show an additional chemical marking at the food source. The bees had to choose between an unused feeder and a feeder, at which their nestmates had fed. 71 to 86% of the bees chose the used feeder where the foragers had left attractants. The used feeder also attracted bees when it was moved away from its original site to a new site halfway along the scent path or 20 m beyond it. (ii) The localization of a food source by S. depilis is very precise with regard to both direction and distance. When control feeders were 1.7 m, 8.5 m, and 17 m away from the experimental feeder (at 50 m from the nest) 97.5-100% of the recruits chose the experimental feeder where the foragers were feeding. When positioned beyond the used feeder the control feeder remained unvisited. We conclude, that markings left at the used feeder represent particular end point tags and differ from scent path markings. stingless bee / Scaptotrigona / scent marking / recruitment

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Section: Chemical Markings At the Feeding Sitementioning

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Section: Ecology Of Foraging Strategiesunclassified

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A stingless bee marks the feeding site in addition to the scent path (Scaptotrigona aff. depilis)

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“…A previous paper (Nieh and Roubik 1995) described the phenomenon of recruitment, using paired feeder experiments modeled after the designs of von Frisch (1967) and Lindauer and Kerr (1958) to establish that M. panamica foragers can communicate the direction, distance, and height above ground of a food source. Potential mechanisms for the communication of height and distance are presented in Nieh and Roubik (in press) however, these mechanisms can only be understood in light of a complete and detailed description of the recruiting forager's behavior.…”

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The food recruitment dance of the stingless bee, Melipona panamica

Nieh

1998

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Foragers of the stingless bee Melipona panamica can communicate the location of a good food source to nestmates and evidently communicate part of this information inside the nest. However there is no careful description of within-nest recruitment behavior for this species or for any other stingless bee. Therefore the goal of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the behaviors of recruiting M. panamica foragers within the nest. A recruiting forager enters the nest, begins producing pulsed sounds as food-unloading bees collect her food (unloading phase), and then performs a dance by rapidly executing clockwise and counterclockwise turns while continuing to produce sound pulses (dance phase). To investigate whether directional information is encoded in the dance, I alternately recorded the behavior of foragers trained to two food sources, each 175 m from the colony but in opposite directions (north and south). I examined the following parameters and found no differences between the dances of foragers feeding in opposite directions: (1) order of clockwise and counterclockwise turns, (2) turn direction, (3) angular start position, (4) angular stop position, (5) turn magnitude, and (6) turn angular velocity. Foragers recruiting for a rich food source (2.5 M) initially unloaded food with their bodies oriented 180° from the entrance. They began turns at random orientations, but tended to end these turns facing the nest entrance (0°). Dancers for poor food sources (1.0 M sucrose solution) turned at significantly lower velocities than dancers for good food sources (2.5 M sucrose solution), and exhibited random initial, start-turn, and stop-turn orientations. Throughout her stay inside the nest, the recruiting forager produced sounds. During sound production, her folded wings vibrated dorsoventrally over her abdomen and she attracted the attention of follower bees who J.C. Nieh Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, MCZ Labs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA positioned their antennae closely around her body. Foragers recruiting for 1.0 M and 2.5 M food sources attracted the same number of food-unloading bees, but 1.0 M recruiters attracted significantly fewer followers around their abdomens.

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Sexual dimorphism and phenotypic plasticity in the antennal lobe of a stingless bee, Melipona scutellaris

Roselino

Hrncir

Landim

et al. 2015

J of Comparative Neurology

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Among social insects, the stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini), a mainly tropical group of highly eusocial bees, present an intriguing variety of well-described olfactory-dependent behaviors showing both caste- and sex-specific adaptations. By contrast, little is known about the neural structures underlying such behavioral richness or the olfactory detection and processing abilities of this insect group. This study therefore aimed to provide the first detailed description and comparison of the brains and primary olfactory centers, the antennal lobes, of the different members of a colony of the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris. Global neutral red staining, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and 3D reconstructions were used to compare the brain structures of males, workers, and virgin queens with a special emphasis on the antennal lobe. We found significant differences between both sexes and castes with regard to the relative volumes of olfactory and visual neuropils in the brain and also in the number and volume of the olfactory glomeruli. In addition, we identified one (workers, queens) and three or four (males) macroglomeruli in the antennal lobe. In both sexes and all castes, the largest glomerulus (G1) was located at a similar position relative to four identified landmark glomeruli, close to the entrance of the antennal nerve. This similarity in position suggests that G1s of workers, virgin queens, and males of M. scutellaris may correspond to the same glomerular entity, possibly tuned to queen-emitted volatiles since all colony members need this information.

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Die gegenseitige Verst�ndigung bei den stachellosen Bienen

Cited by 135 publications

References 11 publications

A stingless bee marks the feeding site in addition to the scent path (Scaptotrigona aff. depilis)

A stingless bee marks the feeding site in addition to the scent path (Scaptotrigona aff. depilis)

The food recruitment dance of the stingless bee, Melipona panamica

Sexual dimorphism and phenotypic plasticity in the antennal lobe of a stingless bee, Melipona scutellaris

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