Trophallaxis in honey bees: transfer delay and daily modulation
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The trophallactic behavior of donor honey bees, observed in an experimental arena, showed that an increase in the crop load of donor bees caused the decrease of transfer delays. Differences in the flow rates of sucrose solutions reduced the transfer delays and increased the flow rate of feeding. Food source profitability and the time of the day when the experiment was performed helps to determine the time of the first trophallactic contact. The study reveals the functional relationship between crop load and flow rate in a hive where trophallactic exchanges occur regularly, and reveals the manner of modulation of food transfer behavior by donors.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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Information about food quality influences load-size selection in recruited leaf-cutting ants
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The interplay between individual load-size selection and recruitment behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex lundi. Results show thatload-size selection, velocity and trail-laying behavior of recruited A. lundi workers depended on information about food quality transferred by a single recruiter ant. In the first phases of a recruitment process, the decision to transfer information as soon as possible about the quality of the food source will motivate a worker to return sooner to the nest, displaying recruiting behavior, than with a full load.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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Assessment of nectar flow rate and memory for patch quality in the ant Camponotus rufipes
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The assessment of nectar flow rate by nectar-feeding ants, Camponotus rufipes, for patch quality is examined. The results indicate that ants respond quantitatively to differences in nectar flow rate and implies that individuals are be able to integrate information about both variables during the feeding event.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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