ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2016
Nectar loads as fuel for collecting nectar and pollen in honeybees: adjustment by sugar concentration.
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- Changes in resource perception throughout the foraging visit contribute to task specialization in the honey bee Apis mellifera.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Honey bees save energy in honey processing by dehydrating nectar before returning to the nest.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Honeybee colonies provide foragers with costly fuel to promote pollen collection.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Adjustment of fuel loads in stingless bees (Melipona subnitida).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Stingless bees and their adaptations to extreme environments.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Review
- Honeybee rebel workers invest less in risky foraging than normal workers.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
When honeybee foragers leave the nest, they receive nectar from nest mates for use as fuel for flight or as binding material to build pollen loads. We examined whether the concentration of nectar carried from the nest changes with the need for sugar. We found that pollen foragers had more-concentrated nectar (61.8 %) than nectar foragers (43.8 %). Further analysis revealed that the sugar concentration of the crop load increased significantly with waggle duration, an indicator of food-source distance, in both groups of foragers. Crop volume also increased with waggle duration. The results support our argument that foragers use concentrated nectar when the need for sugar is high and suggest that they precisely adjust the amount of sugar in the crop by altering both volume and nectar concentrations. We also investigated the impact of the area where foragers receive nectar on the crop load concentration at departure. Although nectar and pollen foragers tend to load nectar at different areas in the nest, area did not have a significant effect on crop load concentration. Departing foragers showed an average of 2.2 momentary (<1 s) begging trophallactic contacts before leaving the nest. They might be rejecting nectar with inappropriate concentrations during these contacts.
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