Preliminary Study of Mites Associated with the Japanese Honey Bee, Apis cerana japonica Radoszkowski (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

貴美子, 岡部; 達哉, 中村; 哲雄, 後藤

doi:10.2300/acari.9.23

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“…Although well-detailed mite-honeybee associations are limited to parasitism, most mite associations on honeybees are commensal and/or cleptoparasitic, whereas predators that probably feed on other arthropods are common in stingless bee nests; thus, predacious mites may be mutualistic (Schmid-Hempel 1998). Scavenger mites that naturally inhabit flowers (e.g., Neocypholaelaps and Afrocypholaelaps of Ameroseiidae) are sometimes introduced into bee colonies by phoresy, although maintained A. cerana colonies do not appear to be disturbed by them (Okabe et al 2000). In Polish apiaries, 99% of honeybee colonies (A. mellifera) were infested with stored product mites that were scavenging hive products, dead hosts, fungi and other organic substances; the mites usually did not negatively affect the bees (Chmielewski 1991).…”

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“…Scavenger mites that naturally inhabit flowers (e.g., Neocypholaelaps and Afrocypholaelaps of Ameroseiidae) are sometimes introduced into bee colonies by phoresy, although maintained A. cerana colonies do not appear to be disturbed by them (Okabe et al . ). In Polish apiaries, 99% of honeybee colonies ( A. mellifera ) were infested with stored product mites that were scavenging hive products, dead hosts, fungi and other organic substances; the mites usually did not negatively affect the bees (Chmielewski ).…”

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Ecological characteristics of insects that affect symbiotic relationships with mites

Okabe

2013

Entomological Science

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Parasites and pathogens that begin as symbionts, i.e., organisms living together in the same habitat, are some of the most promising drivers of species evolution. Because insects are highly diverse and important as ecosystem service agents and because mites can exert large effects on insect populations (capable of killing at least juveniles), insect-mite interactions have been analyzed from various perspectives, including evolutionary, ecological and pest-management perspectives. Here, I review and examine insect-mite symbiotic associations to develop hypotheses concerning the factors that maintain and develop their relationships. Previous studies have hypothesized that insect sociality and mite richness and specificity affect insect-mite interactions. I found that both solitary and social insects, including parasocial and subsocial insects, harbor numbers of symbionts including species-specific ones but few dangerous mite symbionts in their nests or habitats under natural conditions. Nest size or the amount of food resources in a nest may affect mite richness. On the basis of this review, I hypothesize that the insect characteristics relevant for mite symbiotic hosting are sharing the same habitat with mites and living in a nutrient-rich habitat. I also suggest that many cases of species-specific symbiosis began with phoresy. To test these hypotheses, phylogenetic information on mites living with insect groups and quantitative analysis to characterize each insect-mite relationship are necessary.

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Ecological characteristics of insects that affect symbiotic relationships with mites

Okabe

2013

Entomological Science

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“…This is a useful field-based 'model system' to test assertions out on. At least T. putrescentiae and C. lactis are assumed to be scavengers in bee hives (Okabe et al 2000). All three species were estimated (by Bowman 2023a) to be able to burrow into a substrate at equivalent to their body size in as short a time as an hour.…”

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Do astigmatid teeth matter: a tribological review of cheliceral chelae in co-occuring mites from UK beehives

Bowman

2024

Exp Appl Acarol

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The dentition of the chelal moveable digit in cohabiting astigmatids from UK beehives (i.e., Carpoglyphus lactis (Linnaeus), Glycyphagus domesticus (DeGeer), and Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank)) is characterised for the first time using quantitative tribological measures within a 2D mechanical model. The trophic function of astigmatid chelae are reviewed in terms of macroscopic tools used by humans including hooking devices, pliers, shears, rasps and saws. Comparisons to oribatid claws and isopod dactyli are made. The overall pattern of the moveable digit form of T. putrescentiae is not just a uniformly shrunken/swollen version between the other two taxa at either the macro- or micro-scale. Mastication surface macro-roughness values are in the range of international Roughness Grade Numbers N5–N6. The moveable digit of C. lactis has low rugosity values compared to the glycyphagid and acarid (which are topographically more similar and match that roughness typical of some coral reef surfaces). C. lactis has the most plesiomorphic moveable digit form. The mastication surface of all three species as a chewing tool is distinctly ornamented despite the moveable digit of C. lactis looking like a bar-like beam. The latter has more opportunities to be a multifunctional tool behaviourally than the other two species. Little evidence of any differences in the ‘spikiness’ of any ‘toothiness’ is found. Some differences with laboratory cultured specimens are found in C. lactis and possibly T. putrescentiae suggesting where selection on the digit may be able to occur. The chelal surface of T. putrescentiae has been deformed morphologically during evolution the most, that of C. lactis the least. Repeated localised surface differentiation is a feature of the moveable digit in G. domesticus compared to the likely more concerted changes over certain nearby locations in T. putrescentiae. An impactful chelal teeth design is present in G. domesticus but this is more equivocal in T. putrescentiae. Pockets within the mastication surface of the glycyphagid (and to some extent for the acarid) may produce foodstuff crunch forces of the scale of the chelal tips of oribatids. The moveable digit dentition of G. domesticus is adapted to shred foodstuff (like a ripsaw) more than that of the grazing/shearing dentition of T. putrescentiae. The collecting ‘picker‘ design of C. lactis posterior teeth matches the size of Bettsia alvei hyphae which attacks hive-stored pollen. Detritus accumulated in chelal digit gullets through a sawing action matches the smallest observed ingested material. The dentition of C. lactis should produce less friction when moving through food material than G. domesticus. C. lactis is the most hypocarnivorous and may ‘skim’ through fluids when feeding. Astigmatid teeth do matter. The three commensal species can avoid direct competition. Future work is proposed in detail.

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Bibliography of the Asian Species of Honeybees

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2010

Honeybees of Asia

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Preliminary Study of Mites Associated with the Japanese Honey Bee, Apis cerana japonica Radoszkowski (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Ecological characteristics of insects that affect symbiotic relationships with mites

Ecological characteristics of insects that affect symbiotic relationships with mites

Do astigmatid teeth matter: a tribological review of cheliceral chelae in co-occuring mites from UK beehives

Bibliography of the Asian Species of Honeybees

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