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Abstract:

Since forager honeybees change their food-unloading behavior according to nectar-source profitability, an experiment was performed in order to analyze whether food-receivers modify their within-hive tasks related to different reward conditions. We offered individual foragers two reward conditions at a rate feeder while an additional feeder offered a constant reward and was of free access to the rest of the hive. Both feeders were the only food sources exploited by the colony during the assays since a flight chamber was used. After receiving nectar, hive bees performed processing cycles that involved several behaviors and concluded when they returned to the delivery area to receive a new food sample. During these cycles, receivers mainly performed oral contacts offering food, or inspected cells, and often both. In the latter case, both behaviors occurred simultaneously and at the same distance from the hive entrance. When they performed a single task, either the occurrence of cell inspections increased or contact offerings decreased for the highest reward rate offered to the donor-forager. Receivers also begged for food more often after interacting with low-profit foragers. Thus, the profitability of the food source exploited by nectar-forager honeybees could affect receiver behaviors within the hives based on individual-to-individual interactions.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees
Autor:Pírez, N.; Farina, W.M.
Filiación:Grupo de Estud. de Insectos Sociales, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, (C1428EHA) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Apis mellifera; Food source profitability; Nectar processing; Task partitioning; Trophallaxis; behavioral ecology; food quality; foraging behavior; honeybee; intraspecific interaction; social behavior; trophallaxis; Apis; Apis mellifera; Apoidea
Año:2004
Volumen:55
Número:6
Página de inicio:574
Página de fin:582
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-003-0749-2
Título revista:Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Título revista abreviado:Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
ISSN:03405443
CODEN:BESOD
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03405443_v55_n6_p574_Pirez

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Pírez, N. & Farina, W.M. (2004) . Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 55(6), 574-582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-003-0749-2
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Pírez, N., Farina, W.M. "Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees" . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55, no. 6 (2004) : 574-582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-003-0749-2
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Pírez, N., Farina, W.M. "Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees" . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 55, no. 6, 2004, pp. 574-582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-003-0749-2
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Pírez, N., Farina, W.M. Nectar-receiver behavior in relation to the reward rate experienced by foraging honeybees. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2004;55(6):574-582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-003-0749-2