La Thermorégulation Et l'ÉCOLOGIE De Quelques Espèces d'ABEILLES Sociales d'AFRIQUE (Apidae, Trigonini Et Apis Mellifica Var. Adansonii)

Darchen, Roger

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“…Stingless bees can detect changes in nest temperature, as shown by the heating experiments of Engels et al (1995) and observations of foragers closing and opening nest pores in response to changing air temperatures (Darchen, 1973). The thermal sensitivity of stingless bees has not been measured, but may be similar to that of honeybees, which is approximately 0.25°C (true sensitivity may be higher; Heran, 1952).…”

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“…Ventilation appears to be the preferred strategy (Fletcher and Crewe, 1981;Roubik and Peralta, 1983;Zucchi and Sakagami, 1972) and may be sufficient to cool colonies under most circumstances, given the well-insulated nest structure (Engels et al, 1995;Rosenkranz et al, 1987). Ground-nesting African species, Trigona denoiti and T. gribodoi, decreased phases of inspiration and expiration in the night when temperatures decreased (Moritz and Crewe, 1988) and Dactylurina staudingeri, opens nest pores with higher temperatures during the day and closes them during the colder night (Darchen, 1973).…”

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Effect of food quality, distance and height on thoracic temperature in the stingless beeMelipona panamica

Nieh

Sánchez

2005

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Corrigendum Nieh, J. C. and Sánchez, D. Effect of food quality, distance and height on thoracic temperature in the stingless bee Melipona panamica. J. Exp. Biol. 208,[3933][3934][3935][3936][3937][3938][3939][3940][3941][3942][3943] On the title page of this paper, Daniel Sanchez was incorrectly affiliated to Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California San Diego, MC#0116, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USAThe correct affiliation should have read:El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto km 2.5, 30700 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error. 3933Thermoregulation is widespread among large-bodied insects (Heinrich, 1993), particularly the Hymenoptera (Himmer, 1932), wasps (Coelho and Ross, 1996;Stabentheiner et al., 2004), solitary bees (Baird, 1986;Chappell, 1982;May and Casey, 1983;Nicolson and Louw, 1982;Stone, 1993a) and social bees (Bujok et al., 2002;Kleinhenz et al., 2003;Seeley et al., 2003;Stabentheiner et al., 1990;Starks and Gilley, 1999). Thermoregulation has significant ecological consequences (Corbet et al., 1993) because internal heat generation enables solitary (Stone, 1994) and social bees (Heinrich, 1993) to forage and pollinate under colder ambient conditions compared to animals that cannot actively thermoregulate.Several studies have found evidence for thoracic temperature regulation during honeybee recruitment (Esch, 1960;Stabentheiner, 2001;Stabentheiner and Hagmüller, 1991;Waddington, 1990). Honeybees can regulate their body temperature according to food quality, exhibiting higher thoracic temperatures after feeding at richer food sources (Schmaranzer and Stabentheiner, 1988;Underwood, 1991). Thoracic temperature positively correlates with the quality of the food as perceived by sweetness (Stabentheiner and Hagmüller, 1991), proximity to the nest (Esch, 1960;Stabentheiner, 1996) and nectar flow rate (Farina and Wainselboim, 2001). Moreover, thoracic temperatures are affected by the status of the hive (amount of pollen and nectar stores) and are thus tuned to colony need (Schulz et al., 1998). Mechanistically, honeybee thoracic temperature is tied to metabolic expenditure, which increases with increasing sugar concentration and nectar flow rate (Moffatt and Nunez, 1997), and perhaps with forager motivational state (Balderrama et al., 1992). Honeybee thoracic temperature is tied to the thermal stability and the ability to generate high mechanical power output in flight (Dudley, 2000;Woods et al., 2005).To date, no studies have examined whether stingless bees have similar thermal abilities. We therefore hypothesized that food profitability to the colony would significantly affect the temperatures of recruiting meliponine foragers at the feeder and inside the nest.What little is known about meliponine thermoregulation largely concerns the regulation of nest temperatures, not individual thermoregulation (Kerr and Laidlaw, 1956;Kerr et al., 1967;Michener, 1974;Roubik...

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Effect of food quality, distance and height on thoracic temperature in the stingless beeMelipona panamica

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Sánchez

2005

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“…An African species, Dacty/uvina staudingeri, has sticky, resin-lined pores, approximately 1 mm in diameter, through the nest covering, but the pore size is apparently adjustable (Darchen, 1973). An African species, Dacty/uvina staudingeri, has sticky, resin-lined pores, approximately 1 mm in diameter, through the nest covering, but the pore size is apparently adjustable (Darchen, 1973).…”

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“…Eusociality brought advantages to many insect species, especially the ability of living in community and, thus, to regulate some parameters of their immediate environment, such as temperature and humidity. While temperature regulation in eusocial insects has been studied extensively [1,5,6,14,18] providing insights about the factors that influences temperature management [1,19,20], such as climate [21] or genetics [18], there is little information on the humidity regulation inside nests and hives. In this study we tested the “hygroregulation hypothesis” by means of using as model two native honeybee subspecies from the M branch, A. m. mellifera and A. m. iberiensis, and the assessment of the temporal hygrometry variation inside and outside beehives.…”

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Hygroregulation, a key ability for eusocial insects: Native Western European bees as a case study

Eouzan¹,

Garnery²,

Pinto³

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Sociality has brought many advantages to various hymenoptera species, including their ability of regulating physical factors in their nest (e.g., temperature). Although less studied, humidity is known to be important for egg, larval and pupal development. Two subspecies of Apis mellifera of the M branch, also called black bees, were used as models to test the “hygroregulation hypothesis”, by means of monitoring hygrometry in hives during one year in four conservation centers: two in France (A. m. mellifera) and two in Portugal (A. m. iberiensis). We investigated the ability of both subspecies to regulate the hygrometry daily, but also during the seasons and one complete year. Our data and statistical analysis probed the capacity of the bees to regulate humidity in their hive, regardless of the day, season or subspecies. Furthermore, the study showed that humidity in beehives is very stable even during winter, when brood is absent, and when temperature is known to be less stable in the beehives. These results would support that hygrometry could prevail over temperature in maintaining nest homeostasis, maybe because of a bigger importance of hygrometry for all the population during a year, or because of the ‘imprint’ of the evolutionary history of this hymenopteran lineage.

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La Thermorégulation Et l'ÉCOLOGIE De Quelques Espèces d'ABEILLES Sociales d'AFRIQUE (Apidae, Trigonini Et Apis Mellifica Var. Adansonii)

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Effect of food quality, distance and height on thoracic temperature in the stingless beeMelipona panamica

Effect of food quality, distance and height on thoracic temperature in the stingless beeMelipona panamica

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