Influence of Age on Antennal Response of Male Honey Bees, Apis mellifera, to Queen Mandibular Pheromone and Alarm Pheromone Component

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1867-1880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Vetter ◽  
P. Kirk Visscher
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Alarm Pheromone ◽  
Pheromone Component ◽  
Queen Mandibular Pheromone ◽  
Antennal Response

QUEEN REARING BY HIGH AND LOW QUEEN MANDIBULAR PHEROMONE RESPONDING WORKER HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA L.)

1997 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pankiw
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Laboratory Bioassay ◽  
Strain Effects ◽  
Attraction Response ◽  
Queen Mandibular Pheromone ◽  
Interindividual Differences ◽  
Queen Rearing

AbstractStrains of workers that were high or low in their retinue attraction response to queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) in a laboratory bioassay were fostered in queenless colonies to measure their differential queen-rearing behaviors. High-strain workers spent proportionately more time working on and in queen cells than low-strain workers, and there were significant age by strain effects for time spent rearing queen cells. No interindividual differences were detected among the strains in the tendency to rear queens. Results from this experiment suggest that QMP retinue attraction response may be a mechanism upon which selection acts for division of queen-rearing labor.

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