التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Colony foraging allocation is finely tuned to food distance and sweetness even close to a bee colony |
| المؤلفون: |
León, Adolfo, Arias‐Castro, Carlos, Rodríguez‐Mendiola, Martha A., Meza‐Gordillo, Rocío, Gutiérrez‐Miceli, Federico A., Nieh, James C. |
| المصدر: |
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata ; volume 155, issue 1, page 47-53 ; ISSN 0013-8703 1570-7458 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Wiley |
| سنة النشر: |
2015 |
| المجموعة: |
Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref) |
| الوصف: |
Social bee colonies can allocate their foraging resources over a large spatial scale, but how they allocate foraging on a small scale near the colony is unclear and can have implications for understanding colony decision‐making and the pollination services provided. Using a mass‐foraging stingless bee, S captotrigona pectoralis ( D alla T orre) ( H ymenoptera: A pidae: M eliponini), we show that colonies will forage near their nests and allocate their foraging labor on a very fine spatial scale at an array of food sources placed close to the colony. We counted the foragers that a colony allocated to each of nine feeders containing 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 M sucrose solution [31, 43, and 55% sucrose (wt/wt), respectively] at distances of 10, 15, and 20 m from the nest. A significantly greater number of foragers (2.6–5.3 fold greater) visited feeders placed 10 vs. 20 m away from the colony. Foraging allocation also corresponded to food quality. At the 10‐m feeders, 4.9‐fold more foragers visited 2.0 M as compared to 1.0 M sucrose feeders. Colony forager allocation thus responded to both differences in food distance and quality even when the travel cost was negligible compared to normal colony foraging distances (10 m vs. an estimated 800–1 710 m). For a nearby floral patch, this could result in unequal floral visitation and pollination. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1111/eea.12283 |
| الإتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12283Test |
| حقوق: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vorTest |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.6BCD5A42 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
