Oriental Orchid (Cymbidium floribundum) Attracts the Japanese Honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) with a Mixture of 3-Hydroxyoctanoic Acid and 10-Hydroxy- (E)-2-Decenoic Acid

Sugahara, Michio; Izutsu, Kazunari; Nishimura, Yasuichiro; Sakamoto, Fumio

doi:10.2108/zsj.30.99

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“…It appears likely that these compounds serve as a sort of aggregation signal (Matsuyama, personal communication). Similar chemical mimicry of the oriental honeybee pheromone is also reported in the oriental orchid, Cymbidium floribundum (Sugahara et al, 2013). The orchid flower Fig.…”

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“Double-Trick” Visual and Chemical Mimicry by the Juvenile Orchid MantisHymenopus coronatusused in Predation of the Oriental HoneybeeApis cerana

Mizuno

Yamaguchi

Yamamoto³

et al. 2014

Zoological Science

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“Double-Trick” Visual and Chemical Mimicry by the Juvenile Orchid MantisHymenopus coronatusused in Predation of the Oriental HoneybeeApis cerana

Mizuno

Yamaguchi

Yamamoto³

et al. 2014

Zoological Science

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“…Among the 27,000 species of Orchidaceae, specialized pollination by honeybees is not common, in marked contrast with the prevalence of specialized pollination by the other corbiculate Apidae (orchid bees, bumblebees and stingless bees) (van der Pijl & Dodson, ; van der Cingel, , ), even though honeybees are widely distributed in Eurasia and Africa, with each colony containing a few thousand to 60,000, or more, workers (Michener, ). However, the honeybee pollination seems exceptionally widespread among Cymbidium species, including C. floribundum (Sasaki et al, ; Sasaki et al, ; Sugahara et al, ), C. suavissimum Sander ex C.H. Curtis (Sugahara, ), C. atropurpureum (Lindl.)…”

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“…(as C. pumilum Rolfe) under cultivated conditions, which has flowers that are exclusively pollinated by the Japanese honeybee Apis cerana japonica (Apoidea: Apiformes: Apidae) (Sasaki, Ono, & Fukuda, ; Sasaki, Ono, & Yoshida, ). The nectarless flowers emit a scent that includes two mandibular gland components of the honeybee, 3‐hydroxyoctanoic acid and 10‐hydroxy‐(E)‐2‐decenoic acid, to deceive individual bees or bee swarms into engaging in pollination activity (Sugahara, Izutsu, Nishimura, & Sakamoto, ).…”

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Specialized pollination by honeybees inCymbidium dayanum, a fall–winter flowering orchid

Matsuda

Sugiura

2019

Plant Species Biology

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Floral biology and pollination mechanisms of Cymbidium dayanum, an endangered epiphytic orchid, were investigated in south Kyushu, Japan. The flowering period spanned approximately 4 months from fall to winter, with the inflorescences often blooming asynchronously on each plant and individual flowers commonly lasting for a month. The nectarless flowers are self‐compatible but cannot autonomously self‐pollinate; the orchid needs to attract pollinators by deceit for capsule production. The field observations showed that the flowers were pollinated exclusively by the Japanese honeybee Apis cerana japonica, despite its long flowering period. The worker bees pollinated flowers and/or received the pollinarium on the thorax, while escaping from the labellum chamber. The natural fruit‐set ratios at the population level, an estimate of pollination success, varied interannually but were generally low, as the result of infrequent flower visits by honeybee workers owing to the cold winter climate and the lack of a nectar reward. Because most flowers that were artificially pollinated in the winter successfully developed into capsules, the coldness was not considered a direct cause of the low fruit‐set ratios. Our results explicitly indicate that the bee pollination niche could be available to temperate plant species even during mid‐winter. We inferred advantages for the winter flowering of C. dayanum.

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“…In a limited number of cases the operative chemical compounds that attract or repel bees have been characterized (Detzel and Wink, 1993;Naik et al, 2008Naik et al, , 2010aSugahara et al, 2013), yielding insights into the mechanism by which plants can be used to facilitate honey harvest. Although in a few cases compounds may simply be toxic to bees (e.g., cassava leaves, see below), most relevant chemicals are likely to be semiochemicals that mimic the action of pheromones, signaling the condition of the hive or disrupting communication between bees and thus preventing colonies from mounting a collective defense response.…”

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Could plant extracts have enabled hominins to acquire honey before the control of fire?

Kraft¹,

Venkataraman²

2015

Journal of Human Evolution

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Honey is increasingly recognized as an important food item in human evolution, but it remains unclear whether extinct hominins could have overcome the formidable collective stinging defenses of honey bees during honey acquisition. The utility of smoke for this purpose is widely recognized, but little research has explored alternative methods of sting deterrence such as the use of plant secondary compounds. To consider whether hominins could have used plant extracts as a precursor or alternative to smoke, we review the ethnographic, ethnobotanical, and plant chemical ecology literature to examine how humans use plants in combination with, and independently of, smoke during honey collection. Plant secondary compounds are diverse in their physiological and behavioral effects on bees and differ fundamentally from those of smoke. Plants containing these chemicals are widespread and prove to be remarkably effective in facilitating honey collection by honey hunters and beekeepers worldwide. While smoke may be superior as a deterrent to bees, plant extracts represent a plausible precursor or alternative to the use of smoke during honey collection by hominins. Smoke is a sufficient but not necessary condition for acquiring honey in amounts exceeding those typically obtained by chimpanzees, suggesting that significant honey consumption could have predated the control of fire.

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Oriental Orchid (Cymbidium floribundum) Attracts the Japanese Honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) with a Mixture of 3-Hydroxyoctanoic Acid and 10-Hydroxy- (E)-2-Decenoic Acid

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

“Double-Trick” Visual and Chemical Mimicry by the Juvenile Orchid MantisHymenopus coronatusused in Predation of the Oriental HoneybeeApis cerana

“Double-Trick” Visual and Chemical Mimicry by the Juvenile Orchid MantisHymenopus coronatusused in Predation of the Oriental HoneybeeApis cerana

Specialized pollination by honeybees inCymbidium dayanum, a fall–winter flowering orchid

Could plant extracts have enabled hominins to acquire honey before the control of fire?

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