scholarly journals Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) is modified by wax comb transfer

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J Couvillon ◽  
Jamie P Caple ◽  
Samuel L Endsor ◽  
Martin Kärcher ◽  
Trudy E Russell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Colony Odour ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Unidirectional Transfer ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition ◽  
Wax Comb ◽  
Rejection Rates

In recognition, discriminators use sensory information to make decisions. For example, honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) entrance guards discriminate between nest-mates and intruders by comparing their odours with a template of the colony odour. Comb wax plays a major role in honeybee recognition. We measured the rejection rates of nest-mate and non-nest-mate worker bees by entrance guards before and after a unidirectional transfer of wax comb from a ‘comb donor’ hive to a ‘comb receiver’ hive. Our results showed a significant effect that occurred in one direction. Guards in the comb receiver hive became more accepting of non-nest-mates from the comb donor hive (rejection decreased from 70 to 47%); however, guards in the comb donor hive did not become more accepting of bees from the comb receiver hive. These data strongly support the hypothesis that the transfer of wax comb increases the acceptance of non-nest-mates not by changing the odour of the bees, but by changing the template used by guards.

Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) is modified by wax comb transfer

2007 ◽  
Vol -1 (1) ◽  
pp. -1--1
Author(s):  
Margaret J. Couvillon ◽  
Jamie P. Caple ◽  
Samuel L. Endsor ◽  
Martin Kärcher ◽  
Trudy E. Russell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition ◽  
Wax Comb

scholarly journals Speed and accuracy in nest-mate recognition: a hover wasp prioritizes face recognition over colony odour cues to minimize intrusion by outsiders

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1802) ◽  
pp. 20142750 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Baracchi ◽  
I. Petrocelli ◽  
L. Chittka ◽  
G. Ricciardi ◽  
S. Turillazzi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Cuticular Hydrocarbon ◽  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Social Wasp ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Colony Odour ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Chemical Profiles ◽  
Serious Injury

Social insects have evolved sophisticated recognition systems enabling them to accept nest-mates but reject alien conspecifics. In the social wasp, Liostenogaster flavolineata (Stenogastrinae), individuals differ in their cuticular hydrocarbon profiles according to colony membership; each female also possesses a unique (visual) facial pattern. This species represents a unique model to understand how vision and olfaction are integrated and the extent to which wasps prioritize one channel over the other to discriminate aliens and nest-mates. Liostenogaster flavolineata females are able to discriminate between alien and nest-mate females using facial patterns or chemical cues in isolation. However, the two sensory modalities are not equally efficient in the discrimination of ‘friend’ from ‘foe’. Visual cues induce an increased number of erroneous attacks on nest-mates (false alarms), but such attacks are quickly aborted and never result in serious injury. Odour cues, presented in isolation, result in an increased number of misses: erroneous acceptances of outsiders. Interestingly, wasps take the relative efficiencies of the two sensory modalities into account when making rapid decisions about colony membership of an individual: chemical profiles are entirely ignored when the visual and chemical stimuli are presented together. Thus, wasps adopt a strategy to ‘err on the safe side’ by memorizing individual faces to recognize colony members, and disregarding odour cues to minimize the risk of intrusion from colony outsiders.

Nest-mate recognition cues are not used during or influenced by mating in the antFormica exsecta

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Martin ◽  
S. Shemilt ◽  
K. Trontti
Keyword(s):  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition

scholarly journals Comb wax mediates the acquisition of nest-mate recognition cues in honey bees

1988 ◽  
Vol 85 (22) ◽  
pp. 8766-8769 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Breed ◽  
K. R. Williams ◽  
J. H. Fewell
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bees ◽  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition

Worker policing and nest mate recognition in the ant Formica fusca

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 1143-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Helanterä ◽  
Liselotte Sundström
Keyword(s):  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Worker Policing ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Formica Fusca ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition

scholarly journals Nest-mate recognition in Manuelia postica (Apidae: Xylocopinae): an eusocial trait is present in a solitary bee

2007 ◽  
Vol 275 (1632) ◽  
pp. 285-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Flores-Prado ◽  
Daniel Aguilera-Olivares ◽  
Hermann M Niemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Solitary Bee ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition

scholarly journals Phenotypic Plasticity of Nest-Mate Recognition Cues in Formica exsecta Ants

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 735-740
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Martin ◽  
Falko P. Drijfhout ◽  
Adam G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Mate Recognition ◽  
Nest Mate ◽  
Nest Mate Recognition
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