Predictive modelling of honey bee foraging activity using local weather conditions

Clarke, Dominic J; Robert, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s13592-018-0565-3

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“…Many studies have reported that weather conditions affect the foraging behaviours of bees [9,13,33]. Compared with RH, temperature and light intensity are more important weather conditions that affect honeybee foraging flights [10]. We found similar results in our study.…”

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confidence: 89%

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Pollen Release Dynamics and Daily Patterns of Pollen-Collecting Activity of Honeybee Apis mellifera and Bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis in Solar Greenhouse

Zhang

Zhou

2019

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Pollen is important not only for pollination and fertilization of plants, but also for colony development of bee pollinators. Anther dehiscence determines the available pollen that can be collected by foragers. In China, honeybees and bumblebees are widely used as pollinators in solar greenhouse agriculture. To better understand the effect of solar greenhouse microclimates on pollen release and pollen-foraging behaviour, we observed the anther dehiscence dynamics and daily pollen-collecting activity of Apis mellifera and Bombus lantschouensis during peach anthesis in a solar greenhouse in Beijing. Microclimate factors had a significant effect on anther dehiscence and bee foraging behaviour. The proportion of dehisced anthers increased with increasing temperature and decreasing relative humidity and peaked from 11:00 h to 14:00 h, coinciding with the peak pollen-collecting activity of bees. On sunny days, most pollen grains were collected by the two pollinators within two hours after anther dehiscence, at which time the viability of pollen had not yet significantly decreased. Our study helps us to better understand the relationship between food resources and pollinator foraging behaviour and to make better use of bees for pollination in Chinese solar greenhouses.

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“…Weather conditions also affect the foraging activity of bees, both directly and indirectly. On the one hand, bee foraging behaviour usually occurs within a suitable range of air temperature and humidity [8,9,10]. On the other hand, weather conditions affect bee foraging behaviour by altering the quantity and quality of food resources [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Pollen Release Dynamics and Daily Patterns of Pollen-Collecting Activity of Honeybee Apis mellifera and Bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis in Solar Greenhouse

Zhang

Zhou

2019

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“…Although daily maximum temperature alone was not a significant factor in relation to the amount of pollen collected by the honey bee colonies on any one day, the rate of evaporation, which tends to increase with increasing temperature, was. Furthermore, pan evaporation also depends on the temperature difference between the air and the evaporating surface, the relative humidity, solar radiation and wind speed, all factors that are known to impact on honey bee foraging activity [ 37 , 38 ].…”

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Limited Cross Plant Movement and Non-Crop Preferences Reduce the Efficiency of Honey Bees as Pollinators of Hybrid Carrot Seed Crops

Gaffney

Bohman

Quarrell

et al. 2019

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Pollination rates in hybrid carrot crops remain limited after introduction of honey bee hives. In this study, honey bee foraging behaviour was observed in commercial hybrid carrot seed crops. Significantly more visits were made to male-fertile (MF) rather than cytoplasmically male-sterile (CMS) flowers. Pollen was collected from bees returning to a hive, to determine daily variation in pollen loads collected and to what level the bees were foraging for carrot pollen. Honey bees visited a wide range of alternative pollen sources and made relatively few visits to carrot plants throughout the period of flowering. Visitation rates to other individual floral sources fluctuated but visitation to carrot was consistently low. The underlying rate of carrot pollen visits among collecting trips was modelled and estimated to be as low as 1.4%, a likely cause of the limited success implementing honey bee hives in carrot crops.

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“…Another major determinant of individual metabolism, i.e. ambient temperature (Gillooly et al 2001, Clarck 2006), has also been observed to be positively correlated with resource harvesting and attack rates both directly in ectotherms (Kwon and Saeed 2003, Taylor and Collie 2003, Byström et al 2006, Le Lann et al 2011, Clarke and Robert 2018) and via increased thermoregulation cost in endotherms (Kotler et al 1993, Bozinovic and Vasquez 1999).…”

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Relationship between individual metabolic rate and patch departure behaviour: evidence from aquatic gastropods

Cozzoli

Shokri

Ligetta

et al. 2020

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Individual energy requirements are tightly related to individual resource use and by extension of space‐use patterns and other traits at higher levels of the ecological hierarchy. However, there is still little experimental evidence linking individual energetics and space‐use behaviour. Individual energy requirements scale mainly with body size and temperature, but these do not explain all individual variation. Therefore, studies focused on inter individual variation in resource and space use behaviour can be used to frame foraging dynamics in an energy perspective. We empirically tested the hypothesis of a relationship between individual energetics and patch departure behaviour using as model organisms four small species (body mass ranging from 0.4 to 14 mg AFDW) of aquatic gastropods strongly differing in adult size: Galba truncatula, Bithynia tentaculata, Theodoxus fluviatilis and Ecrobia ventrosa (in descending order of size). Motility tests were performed in controlled microcosm conditions. The tests were designed to classify the specimens as either low motility (not inclined to abandon the patch) or high motility (likely to abandon the patch). The tests entailed measuring the propensity of the individuals to abandon a limited resource patch (2 g DW of conditioned Phragmites australis leaves) within a given amount of time (24 h) when foraging with conspecifics under conditions where competition for food is expected to increase over time due to resource depletion. The individual standard metabolic rate of the tested specimens was measured via open flow respirometry and compared across motility classes at intra‐ and interspecific level. At both levels, we observed that individuals with higher standard metabolic rates were more inclined to abandon the patch. This finding establishes a link between foraging theory and competitive coexistence mechanisms.

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Predictive modelling of honey bee foraging activity using local weather conditions

Cited by 83 publications

References 18 publications

Pollen Release Dynamics and Daily Patterns of Pollen-Collecting Activity of Honeybee Apis mellifera and Bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis in Solar Greenhouse

Pollen Release Dynamics and Daily Patterns of Pollen-Collecting Activity of Honeybee Apis mellifera and Bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis in Solar Greenhouse

Limited Cross Plant Movement and Non-Crop Preferences Reduce the Efficiency of Honey Bees as Pollinators of Hybrid Carrot Seed Crops

Relationship between individual metabolic rate and patch departure behaviour: evidence from aquatic gastropods

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