INSPECTION AND FEEDING OF LARVAE BY WORKER HONEY-BEES (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE) - EFFECT OF STARVATION AND FOOD QUANTITY

被引：68

作者：

HUANG, ZY

OTIS, GW

机构：

[1] Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Ontario

来源：

JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR | 1991年 / 4卷 / 03期

关键词：

HONEY BEE; APIS-MELLIFERA; FEEDING; INSPECTION; STIMULUS; COMMUNICATION;

D O I：

10.1007/BF01048280

中图分类号：

Q96 [昆虫学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Honey been larvae are frequently inspected and, sometimes, provided with food by adult workers, but the stimuli that elicit the important task of food provisioning have never been investigated. Larvae with their food experimentally deprived received more frequent inspection and feeding visits from nurse bees than normally fed larvae, suggesting that there could be a "hunger signal." Food-deprived larvae with artificially supplied larval food received the same rate of feeding visits from nurse bees as did normally fed larvae but still received more inspection visits. These results suggest that stimuli eliciting feeding are different from those for inspection. They also support the hypothesis that worker bees deposit food in a larval cell only when the quantity of food is below a certain minimum threshold that is perceived during larval inspections. A model is presented regarding the stimuli from larvae that result in worker feeding behavior.

引用

页码：305 / 317

页数：13

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