Rest at night in some solitary bees - a comparison with the sleep-like state of honey bees

Kaiser, Walter

doi:10.1051/apido:19950304

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“…Stabentheiner When foragers perform flights around noon, they are fed significantly more often than at night, when they mainly stay motionless in the lower part of the colony. This latter 'activity' was described extensively by Kaiser (1988), Kaiser and Steiner-Kaiser (1988), Kaiser (1995), and Sauer and Kaiser (1995). At night when they do not forage they receive food by trophallaxis more often than they donate food themselves; there is a similar tendency also during the day.…”

Section: Nursing Broodmentioning

confidence: 81%

Diurnal behavioural differences in forager and nurse honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollm)

1996

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Summary — Bees defined as nurses by age (7-12 days), or as foragers by behaviour, were observed for 1.5 h around noon during days with good weather conditions and during the following night around midnight. Nurse bees spent more than half of their time in the broodnest and their average periods of activity and inactivity were rather similar during day and night, except that the feeding of adults was more frequent during daytime. Foragers had a more cyclic lifestyle, spending most of their time outside the broodnest. During daytime they flew and had shorter periods of inactivity compared to nighttime and compared to nurse bees. Trophallactic interactions of foragers were much more frequent during daytime and they were more often fed than nurses. In contrast to nurses, we never saw foragers taking food from honey cells, and seldom visiting pollen cells. That foragers seldom eat honey and frequently receive food during daytime demonstrates the important role of passive trophallaxis for the foragers.

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Section: Nursing Broodmentioning

confidence: 81%

Diurnal behavioural differences in forager and nurse honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollm)

1996

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“…Overnight aggregations of bee males have been described previously for solitary bee species that exhibit site fidelity by returning to a particular sleeping roost on the successive nights (Kaiser, 1995;Alcock, 1998;Alves-dosSantos, 1999;Oliveira & Castro, 2002;Alves-dos-Santos et al, 2009). At Ribeirão Preto, the meliponary garden of the FFCLRP was daily inspected from June 03 to September 05 2010 for sleeping roosts between 17:00 h and 07:00 h. This meliponary contained approximately 150 colonies, including Scaptotrigona depilis (Moure), Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille), Frieseomelitta varia (Lepeletier), M. scutellaris (Latreille), M. quadrifasciata and Nannotrigona testaceicornis (Lepeletier).…”

Section: Sleeping Roostsmentioning

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“…Apart from these facts little is known about the reproductive behaviour of male stingless bees. Nothing is known about where males rest overnight after visiting such reproductive aggregations, although males of solitary bees are known to frequently spend the night on plants, alone or in groups under leaves (Kaiser, 1995;Alcock, 1998;Alves-dos-Santos et al, 2009). Furthermore, we know that solitary bee males may exhibit site fidelity by returning to a particular sleeping roost on the successive nights (Kaiser, 1995;Alcock, 1998;Alves-dos-Santos, 1999;Oliveira & Castro, 2002;Alves-dos-Santos et al, 2009).…”

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Congregation Sites and Sleeping Roost of Male Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Santos¹,

Menezes²,

Vollet-Neto³

et al. 2014

Sociobiology

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Very little is known about stingless bee reproductive biology or male behaviour. In this note we provide the first observations on the male aggregations (congregation sites and roosting sites) of some stingless bee species. Our observations show that males of two stingless bee species can congregate on the same site. We also report for the first time the substrates used by stingless bee males for resting at night, that at least one species forms large sleeping roosts composed of hundreds of individuals, and that sleeping roost locations are not reused on subsequent nights.

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“…This place can be small branches of plants, cavities and flowers (Kaiser, 1995;Alcock, 1998;Alvesdos-Santos, 1999;Oliveira and de Castro, 2002). Males of Ptiloglossa goffergei Moure, for example, have been observed resting during the night in bamboo trap-nests in the "Restinga" (Gaglianone MC, personal observation).…”

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Male sleeping aggregations of solitary oil-collecting bees in Brazil (Centridini, Tapinotaspidini, and Tetrapediini; Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Alves-dos-Santos¹,

Gaglianone²,

Naxara³

et al. 2009

Genet. Mol. Res.

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ABSTRACT. Males of solitary bees usually spend the night in clusters on small branches of plants, cavities and flowers. The individuals usually return to the same location each evening during their life, exhibiting site fidelity to a particular plant. We report on the sleeping roosts of the males of some oil-collecting bees of the genera Centris, Paratetrapedia, Lanthanomelissa, Monoeca, and Tetrapedia, as well as the host plants. We discuss the role of the male clusters to the associated plants.

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Rest at night in some solitary bees - a comparison with the sleep-like state of honey bees

Cited by 26 publications

References 7 publications

Diurnal behavioural differences in forager and nurse honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollm)

Diurnal behavioural differences in forager and nurse honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollm)

Congregation Sites and Sleeping Roost of Male Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Male sleeping aggregations of solitary oil-collecting bees in Brazil (Centridini, Tapinotaspidini, and Tetrapediini; Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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