The control of water collection in honey bee colonies

Kühnholz, Susanne; Seeley, Thomas D.

doi:10.1007/s002650050402

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“…In support of this idea is the finding that a social insect colony is indeed able to supply additional labor to one foraging task without disrupting the labor devoted to a second foraging task. This is what Kühnholz and Seeley (1997) observed when they monitored two sectors of a honey bee colony's foraging operation -nectar collection and water collection -while manipulating the colony's need for water. When they elevated a colony's water need by heating the colony's nest, they found that the colony roused additional labor for water collection without reducing the labor devoted to nectar collection.…”

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“…If it had been, it might have needed to reduce the labor devoted to nectar collection to cope with the need for increased water collection. Kühnholz and Seeley (1997) reported vigorous waggle dancing by water collectors at times of high water need, so it is possible that their colony coped with the higher demand for water collectors mainly by recruiting non-foragers to the task, just as our colony coped with the higher demand for pollen collectors mainly by recruiting non-foragers to this task.…”

Section: Recruiting Non-foragersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies have demonstrated one or another of these processes (e.g., recruitment : Wilson, 1962;von Frisch, 1967;task switching: Gordon, 1989;Kühnholz and Seeley, 1997; raising work tempo: Waddington, 1990;Fewell and Winston, 1992). So far, however, no study has shown explicitly how all three processes can function together, or even if all three processes are employed simultaneously, when a colony must devote additional labor to a task.…”

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How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging

2002

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-This study examined how a honey bee colony supplied additional labor for a foraging task, pollen collection, when the demand for this task was increased. When we experimentally raised a colony's pollen need from one day to the next, we found that the colony boosted the labor devoted to pollen collecting (measured in terms of the number of pollen collection trips per day, P) by a factor of 24.8. The number of pollen foragers (N) was increased (by recruiting and task switching) by a factor of 12.4, while the number of collecting trips per pollen forager per day (T) was increased by a factor of 2.0 (note that P = N × T). The increase in number of pollen foragers was produced mostly (73%) by the recruiting of non-foragers to the task and to a smaller extent (27%) by the switching of non-pollen foragers to the task.foraging / pollen collection / recruitment / task switching / work tempo

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Section: Recruiting Non-foragersmentioning

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“…Furthermore, nectar dehydration (Reinhardt, 1939) and water collection and spreading in the nest (e.g. Lindauer, 1954;Kü hnholtz and Seeley, 1997) could be used to increase relative humidity. Electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that coelocapitular sensilla located on the antennae of honeybees are stimulated by changes in humidity (Lacher, 1964;Yokohari et al, 1982).…”

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Hygropreference and brood care in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Ellis

Nicolson

Crewe

et al. 2008

Journal of Insect Physiology

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“…When brood are present, honey bee workers actively maintain the temperature of the hive at 36°C. During the summer, honey bees spread water on the wax honeycombs to evaporatively cool the brood (Kühnholz and Seeley, 1997). Workers also form heat shields by pressing their bodies on comb to absorb heat then remotely disperse the heat (Bonoan et al, 2014;Siegel et al, 2005;Starks and Gilley, 1999).…”

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Octopamine and tyramine modulate the thermoregulatory fanning response in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Cook

Brent

Breed

2017

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Biogenic amines regulate the proximate mechanisms underlying most behavior, including those that contribute to the overall success of complex societies. For honey bees, one crucial set of behaviors contributing to the welfare of a colony is involved with nest thermoregulation. Worker honeybees cool the colony by performing a fanning behavior, the expression of which is largely influenced by response thresholds modulated by the social environment. Here, we examined how changes in biogenic amines affect this group-performed thermoregulatory fanning behavior in honeybees. Concentrations of two biogenic amines, octopamine and tyramine, are significantly lower in active fanners than in non-fanners, but there is no difference in dopamine and serotonin concentrations. Direct feeding of octopamine and tyramine induced a decrease in fanning responses, but only when both amines were included in the treatment. This is the first evidence that fanning behavior is influenced by these two biogenic amines, and this result is consistent with the typical role of these neurotransmitters in regulating locomotor activity in other insects. Individual variation in amine expression also provides a mechanistic link that helps to explain how this group behavior might be coordinated within a colony.

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The control of water collection in honey bee colonies

Cited by 104 publications

References 20 publications

How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging

How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging

Hygropreference and brood care in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Octopamine and tyramine modulate the thermoregulatory fanning response in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

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