The Influence of Photoperiod on the Flight Activity of Honeybees

Kefuss, John; Nye, William P.

doi:10.1080/00218839.1970.11100260

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“…The experiments were made possible by using bees of the South African race (Apis mellifera capensis), which show clear free-running rhythms in LL for several weeks. In contrast, the more widely studied European strains have freerunning rhythms that fade within 4-5 days (Bennett and Renner, 1963;Beier, 1968;Beier and Lindauer, 1970;Kefuss and Nye, 1970;Moore, 1983).…”

Section: Anticipation and The Continuous Awareness Of Timementioning

confidence: 88%

The Influence of Time of Day on the Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

et al. 1989

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The honeybee time sense, or Zeitgedächtnis, is highly adaptive, allowing bees to synchronize their foraging behavior with the peak time of daily floral nectar rhythms. Each foraging group within the honeybee colony shows a high degree of fidelity to one species of flower. Across the day, the temporal accuracy of foraging visits to experimental feeding times varies considerably, being nearly exact for morning-trained foraging groups but becoming less so for foraging groups trained later in the day. The evidence gained in this study suggests that the diel change in accuracy exhibited by foraging groups, which persists after the removal of many potential environmental time cues, is an endogenously driven behavior pattern. Furthermore, it appears that individual bees are continuously and accurately aware of the time of day, but are programmed to forage with greater anticipation to late-day food sources. Therefore, two separate processes contributing to the honeybee time sense are implicated. The first varies with time of day and determines the amount of anticipatory activity directed toward the food source. The second process is invariant across the day and is involved with the individual forager's continuous, accurate awareness of time.

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Section: Anticipation and The Continuous Awareness Of Timementioning

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The Influence of Time of Day on the Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

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“…Foraging is a risky task that is associated with a high rate of mechanical senescence (Cartar, 1992), and frequent exposure to pathogens and ultraviolet (UV) light (Kefuss and Nye, 1970). Mechanical senescence, such as wing wear, has been found to reduce life expectancy in the honey bee (Neukirch, 1982), possibly because it induces an increased work load and, thereby, a higher metabolic rate (Neukirch, 1982;Cartar, 1992).…”

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“…The lamina is vulnerable although chromophores are especially developed to absorb UV radiation (Miguel et al, 2002), and in humans oxidative stress-induced damage has been found to increase in retinal tissue with age (Parker et al, 2004). It is thus important to note that foragers depend on UV light for guidance on foraging flights, whereas other worker groups predominantly perform tasks within the hive and rely on chemosensory cues rather than visual cues for task performance (Kefuss and Nye, 1970). …”

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Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Seehuus

Krekling

Amdam

2006

Experimental Gerontology

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Accumulation of oxidative stress-induced damage in brain tissue plays an important role in the pathogenesis of normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Neuronal oxidative damage typically increases with age in humans, and also in the invertebrate and vertebrate model species most commonly used in aging research. By use of quantitative immunohistochemistry and Western blot, we show that this aspect of brain senescence is largely decoupled from chronological age in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). The bee is a eusocial insect characterized by the presence of a reproductive queen caste and a caste of functionally sterile female workers that performs various alloparental tasks such as nursing and foraging. We studied patterns of oxidative nitration and carbonylation damage in the brain of worker bees that performed nurse tasks as 8-and 200-day-olds and foraging tasks as 20-and 200-day-olds. In addition, we examined 180-day-old diutinus bees, a stress-resistant temporal worker form that survives unfavorable periods. Our results indicate that nitration damage occurs only at low levels in vivo, but that a 60-kDa protein from honey bee brain is selectively nitrated by peroxynitrite in vitro. Oxidative carbonylation is present at varying levels in the visual and chemosensory neuropiles of worker bees, and this inter-individual variation is better explained by social role than by chronological age.

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“…According to Neukirch (1982), progression of aging in worker bees is driven by intense flights. Foraging is considered to be associated with a high rate of mechanical senescence (Cartar 1992), frequent exposure to pathogens, and ultraviolet light (Kefuss and Nye 1970). Life expectancy is reduced by wing wear (Neukirch 1982), which leads to increased work load and, as a consequence, to a higher metabolic rate.…”

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Effect of the own colony odor on olfactory and thermal preferences of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers

2017

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-Honeybee foragers were tested on their preference for the own colony odor either separately, in an olfactometer, or in combination with their temperature preference, in thermal gradient chambers, where their motor activity was also recorded. The bees in the gradient chambers were either deprived of their colony odor for 9 days or exposed to the odor during the experimental days 4-9. The source of odor was wax from the own colony. Bees were attracted by the odor, and this attraction culminated at night. Thermal preference and motor activity fluctuated in a circadian rhythm both in absence and in combination with the own colony odor but there was an upward drift of both variables in bees deprived of the odor. The data are discussed on the background of detrimental effects of isolation from the own colony odor possibly indicating an age related phenomenon.social insects / colony odor / thermal behavior / locomotor activity / isolation stress

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The Influence of Photoperiod on the Flight Activity of Honeybees

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

The Influence of Time of Day on the Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

The Influence of Time of Day on the Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age

Effect of the own colony odor on olfactory and thermal preferences of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers

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