Photoperiodic influence on the body mass of bumblebee, <i>Bombus terrestris</i> and its copulation duration

Amin, Md. Ruhul; Kwon, Yong-Jung; Suh, Sang Jae

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0418.2007.01162.x

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“…Similarly, Amin et al (2007) found a positive correlation between male mating number and copulation duration in B. terrestris . According to Brown and Bear (2005), possible reasons for this relationship might be that males invest more in mateguarding behavior with each copulation or that it takes longer to transfer sperm and mating plug material with each copulation.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…We also found that heavy males tended to remate more often, and copulate for less time, compared with lighter males. Similarly, Amin et al (2007) suggested that copulation duration was negatively correlated with male body mass, but positively with queen body mass. Male body mass was a significant predictor of the speed of mating initiation and copulation duration, with large males mating more quickly (Amin et al 2012).…”

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“…Baer et al (2001) reported that fatty acids in mating plugs transferred by males prevent the further mating of B. terrestris queens. Males thus determine not only mating frequency (only once) of queens but also copulation duration (Baer 2003), which normally lasts 20-40 min, even though most sperm is transferred within the first 2 min (Duvoisin et al 1999;Amin et al 2007Amin et al , 2009. Variation in male body size also affects mating behavior, with lighter males starting to mate later and copulate longer than heavier males (Amin et al 2012).…”

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Male remating and its influences on queen colony foundation success in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Gösterit

Gürel

2016

Apidologie

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-In most bumblebee species, queens mate with only one male, but males can mate more than once. However, the effects of male remating on colony foundation success of queens remain poorly understood. To test for effects of male remating, we assigned Bombus terrestris queens randomly to one of two groups: virgin males or nonvirgin males that have mated once before. When males were allowed to mate for a second time with virgin queens, 58.57 % successfully remated. There was no significant difference in queen hibernation survival between groups, but queens mated with non-virgin males were more successful in founding a colony, and produced more workers and males than queens mated with virgin males. The mean copulation duration for the second mating of males (48.02 ± 14.36 min) was substantially longer than for the first mating (32.44 ± 8.74 min). Results also showed that male weight influenced both male remating success and copulation duration.Bombus terrestris / mating behavior / copulation duration / male weight / colony development

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Male remating and its influences on queen colony foundation success in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Gösterit

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2016

Apidologie

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“…IT span is empirically related to dry body mass, IT span = 0.77(dry weight) 0.405 ( R 2 = 0.96; mass in mg and IT in mm, [38]), so that body mass can be estimated from IT span data. We approximated the live weight of the bumblebee individuals by using the calculated dry weight and the live:dry weight ratios as reported in the literature [39].…”

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Space Use of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) Revealed by Radio-Tracking

2011

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BackgroundAccurate estimates of movement behavior and distances travelled by animals are difficult to obtain, especially for small-bodied insects where transmitter weights have prevented the use of radio-tracking.Methodology/Principal FindingsHere, we report the first successful use of micro radio telemetry to track flight distances and space use of bumblebees. Using ground surveys and Cessna overflights in a Central European rural landscape mosaic we obtained maximum flight distances of 2.5 km, 1.9 km and 1.3 km for Bombus terrestris (workers), Bombus ruderatus (worker), and Bombus hortorum (young queens), respectively. Bumblebee individuals used large areas (0.25–43.53 ha) within one or a few days. Habitat analyses of one B. hortorum queen at the landscape scale indicated that gardens within villages were used more often than expected from habitat availability. Detailed movement trajectories of this individual revealed that prominent landscape structures (e.g. trees) and flower patches were repeatedly visited. However, we also observed long (i.e. >45 min) resting periods between flights (B. hortorum) and differences in flower-handling between bumblebees with and without transmitters (B. terrestris) suggesting that the current weight of transmitters (200 mg) may still impose significant energetic costs on the insects.Conclusions/SignificanceSpatio-temporal movements of bumblebees can now be tracked with telemetry methods. Our measured flight distances exceed many previous estimates of bumblebee foraging ranges and suggest that travelling long distances to food resources may be common. However, even the smallest currently available transmitters still appear to compromise flower handling performance and cause an increase in resting behavior of bees. Future reductions of transmitter mass and size could open up new avenues for quantifying landscape-scale space use of insect pollinators and could provide novel insights into the behavior and requirements of bumblebees during critical life stages, e.g. when searching for mates, nest locations or hibernation sites.

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“…An assumption of our calculation of queens' inclusive fitness, which incorporates fitness returns from both a queen's own sons and her workers' sons (queen's grandsons), is that queen-and worker-produced males do not differ in intrinsic quality. Given that male mass in B. terrestris influences male mating success (Duchateau & Marië n, 1995;Amin et al, 2007), we tested this assumption by measuring the masses of queen-and worker-produced males. In Hymenopteran societies, life-history strategy is potentially a function of the evolutionary interests of more than one party.…”

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Lifetime reproductive success and longevity of queens in an annual social insect

Lopez-Vaamonde

Raine

Koning

et al. 2009

J of Evolutionary Biology

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Although central to understanding life-history evolution, the relationship between lifetime reproductive success and longevity remains uncertain in many organisms. In social insects, no studies have reported estimates of queens’ lifetime reproductive success and longevity within populations, despite the importance of understanding how sociality and associated within-group conflict affect life-history traits. To address this issue, we studied two samples of colonies of the annual bumblebee, Bombus terrestris audax, reared from wild-caught queens from a single population. In both samples, queens’ lifetime reproductive success, measured as either queens’ inclusive fitness or as total biomass of queen-produced sexuals (new queens and males), was significantly positively associated with queen longevity, measured from the day the first worker was produced. We suggest that a positive relationship between reproductive success and longevity was inherited from nonsocial ancestors showing parental care and maintained, at least in part, because the presence of workers buffers queens against extrinsic mortality

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Photoperiodic influence on the body mass of bumblebee, Bombus terrestris and its copulation duration

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Male remating and its influences on queen colony foundation success in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Male remating and its influences on queen colony foundation success in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Space Use of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) Revealed by Radio-Tracking

Lifetime reproductive success and longevity of queens in an annual social insect

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