The scent-producing organ of the honey bee

McIndoo, N. E.

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“…The mechanism to locating the queen involves a behavior called “scenting,” where bees raise their abdomens to expose the Nasonov pheromone gland and release the chemicals ( 15 – 17 ) ( Fig. 1 A and Movie S1 , Left ).…”

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Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms

Nguyen

Iuzzolino

Mankel

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Honeybee swarms are a landmark example of collective behavior. To become a coherent swarm, bees locate their queen by tracking her pheromones. But how can distant individuals exploit these chemical signals, which decay rapidly in space and time? Here, we combine a behavioral assay with the machine vision detection of organism location and scenting (pheromone propagation via wing fanning) behavior to track the search and aggregation dynamics of the honeybee Apis mellifera L. We find that bees collectively create a scenting-mediated communication network by arranging in a specific spatial distribution where there is a characteristic distance between individuals and directional signaling away from the queen. To better understand such a flow-mediated directional communication strategy, we developed an agent-based model where bee agents obeying simple, local behavioral rules exist in a flow environment in which the chemical signals diffuse and decay. Our model serves as a guide to exploring how physical parameters affect the collective scenting behavior and shows that increased directional bias in scenting leads to a more efficient aggregation process that avoids local equilibrium configurations of isotropic (nondirectional and axisymmetric) communication, such as small bee clusters that persist throughout the simulation. Our results highlight an example of extended classical stigmergy: Rather than depositing static information in the environment, individual bees locally sense and globally manipulate the physical fields of chemical concentration and airflow.

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Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms

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Iuzzolino

Mankel

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“…The Nasonov gland of the worker honey bee secretes into a groove in the seventh dorsal abdominal tergite (Zoubarev, 1883;McIndoo, 1914). On exposure the secretion releases a volatile pheromone that attracts other workers.…”

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Nasonov pheromone of the honey bee,Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Abstract--Composition of the Nasonov pheromone of the honey bee has been reexamined using new procedures, including analysis of pheromone from single live insects by capillary column GC-MS. Two new components have been identified, nerol and (E,E)-farnesot, and the presence of components proposed previously has been confirmed. Absolute amounts or relative proportions of components in the pheromonal secretion have been determined.

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“…Às glândulas de Koschewnikow das operárias de Apis mellifera (Linaeus, 1758) é atribuída a produção de feromônios de alarme (Ghent & Gary 1962;Maschwitz 1964) e às de rainhas, feromônios sexuais (Gary 1963;Buther & Simpson 1965). Também as glândulas de Nassanov produzem feromônios de reconhecimento dos indivíduos da colônia (McIndoo 1914;Jacob 1924) e recentemente Espelie et al (1990) caracterizaram a composição química do principal componente das glândulas dos tergitos de rainhas de Apis mellifera.…”

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Ocorrência e morfologia de glândulas tegumentares no abdome de Melissoptila richardiae (Bertoni & Scrottky) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini)

Cruz-Landim¹,

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2005

Rev. Bras. entomol.

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ABSTRACT. Occurrence and morphology of tegumentary abdominal glands in Melissoptila richardiae (Bertoni & Scrottky) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini). The occurrence and morphology of abdominal tegumentary glands were studied in Melissoptila richardiae. The results showed the existence of class III glandular cells that may appear as isolated units in tergites and sternites III and IV or forming clustered cells in both side of the tergites III and IV. In this late case the secretion is released in reservoirs derived from the tergite intersegmental membranes. The results suggest that this last gland products are lipidic and probably volatile.

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The scent-producing organ of the honey bee

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Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms

Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms

Nasonov pheromone of the honey bee,Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Ocorrência e morfologia de glândulas tegumentares no abdome de Melissoptila richardiae (Bertoni & Scrottky) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini)

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