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Data from: The conquering of North America: dated phylogenetic and biogeographic inference of migratory behavior in bee hummingbirds
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Data from: Limitation of complementary resources affects colony growth, foraging behavior, and reproduction in bumble bees
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Data from: The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila)
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Data from: Antibiotics in hives and their effects on honey bee physiology and behavioral development
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Data from: Bees modulate behavior during nectar foraging in response to direct ant aggression (<em>Hymenoptera</em>: <em>Apidae</em> and <em>Formicidae</em>)
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Data from: Pollination on the dark side: acoustic monitoring reveals impacts of a total solar eclipse on flight behavior and activity schedule of foraging bees
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Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies
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Behavioral responses by a bumble bee to competition with a niche-constructing congener
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Data from: The effect of conspecific density on honey bee foraging behavior
Foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera) seem to use the presence of conspecific foragers as cues for flower quality. However, there is disagreement regarding how a conspecific cue is perceived by other foragers (enhancement or inhibition). Most studies manipulate the total number of bees foraging in an arena or the presence or absence of a bee on a flower and then observe the behavior of one forager in response to a single conspecific, which does not reflect natural foraging. We tested how a range of conspecifics on flowers affected on which flowers foraging honey bees landed. We trained students from a biology class for non-STEM majors to collect data and tested whether the number of conspecifics on flowers influences on which flower foragers land. We found that foragers land more frequently on flowers occupied by more conspecifics, which supports the hypothesis that conspecifics are cues for local enhancement. Our results increase our understanding of how honey bees forage once at a flower patch.
Data from: Linking the foraging behavior of three bee species to pollen dispersal and gene flow
Foraging behaviors that impact gene flow can guide the design of pollinator strategies to mitigate gene flow. Reduced gene flow is expected to minimize the impact of genetically engineered (GE) crops on feral and natural populations and to facilitate the coexistence of different agricultural markets. The goal of this study is to link foraging behavior to gene flow and identify behaviors that can help predict gene flow for different bee species. To reach this goal, we first examined and compared the foraging behaviors of three distinct bee species, the European honey bee, Apis mellifera L., the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens Cr., and the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata F., foraging on Medicago sativa flowers. Each foraging behavior investigated differed among bee species. Both social bees exhibited directionality of movement and had similar residence, in contrast to the random movement and shorter residence of the solitary bee. Tripping rate and net distance traveled differed among the three bee species. We ranked each behavior among bee species and used the relative ranking as gene flow predictor before testing the predictions against empirical gene flow data. Tripping rate and net distance traveled, but not residence, predicted relative gene dispersal among bee species. Linking specific behaviors to gene flow provides mechanisms to explain differences in gene flow among bee species and guides the development of management practices to reduce gene flow. Although developed in one system, the approach developed here can be generalized to different plant/pollinator systems.
Data from: Multiple molecular data sets suggest independent origins of highly eusocial behavior in bees (Hymenoptera:Apinae)
Different views of the pattern of social evolution among the highly eusocial bees have arisen as a result of discordance between past molecular and morphology-based phylogenies. Here we present new data and taxa for four molecular data sets and reassess the morphological characters available to date. We show that there is no significant character incongruence between four molecular data sets (two nuclear and two mitochondrial) but that there is highly significant character incongruence, which leads to topological incongruence, between the molecular and morphological data. We investigate the effects of using different outgroup combinations to root the estimated tree. We also consider various ways in which biases in the sequence data could be misleading, employing several maximum likelihood models, LogDet corrections, and spectral analyses. Ultimately, we concede that there is strong discordance between the molecular and morphological data partitions, and that the conditional combination approach is appropriately applied in this case. We also find for the molecular trees that there are two equally well supported placements of the root, one supported by 16S and 28S sequences, the other supported by cyt b and opsin. The strength of the evidence leads us to accept two equally well supported hypotheses based on analyses of the molecular data sets. These are the most rigorously supported hypotheses of corbiculate bee relationships at this time, and frame our argument that highly eusocial behavior within the corbiculate bees evolved twice independently.
Data from: Influence of preexisting preference for color on sampling and tracking behavior in bumble bees
Animals reduce uncertainty in their lifetime by using information to guide decision making. Information available can be inherited from the past or gathered from the present. Therefore, animals must balance inherited biases with new information that may be in conflict with those potential biases. In our study, we set up color pairings such that an arbitrarily chosen focal color, human-orange, would result in an inherent bias in comparison to three other colors tested resulting in equal, medium, and strong preference differences. We chose color pairings through a series of preferences tests across 8 colonies of bumblebees. We subsequently used these pairings with rewards that varied in quality (good or bad states) and consistency (steady and fluctuating) in order to investigate how inherited biases affect the foraging choices of bumblebees when new information is gathered. We found that the pre-existing color biases within our bees were only maintained when the reward associated with those colors was steady, even if paired with mediocre sugar concentrations. When maintained, we observed that other aspects of bee choice also reflected this bias, including increased sampling for the preferred color and an increased likelihood of choosing that color in a subsequent choice. Thus, environmental change and reward differences interact with the level of pre-existing bias to determine whether inherited information is more heavily weighted than newly gathered information, and even a strong pre-existing bias can be quickly erased with experience under some conditions.
Juvenile hormone pathway in honey bee larvae: a source of possible signal molecules for the reproductive behavior of Varroa destructor
<p>The parasitic mite <i>Varroa destructor </i>devastates honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) colonies around the world. Entering a brood cell shortly before capping, the <i>Varroa</i> mother feeds on the honey bee larvae. The hormones 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and juvenile hormone (JH), acquired from the host, have been considered to play a key role in initiating <i>Varroa</i>'s reproductive cycle. This study focuses on differential expression of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of JH and ecdysone at 6 time points during the first 30 hours after cell capping in both drone and worker larvae of <i>A. mellifera</i>. This time frame, covering the conclusion of the honey bee brood cell invasion and the start of <i>Varroa</i>'s ovogenesis, is critical to the successful initiation of a reproductive cycle. Our findings support a later activation of the ecdysteroid cascade in honey bee drones compared to worker larvae, which could account for the increased egg production of <i>Varroa</i> in <i>A. mellifera</i> drones. The JH pathway was generally downregulated confirming its activity is antagonistic to the ecdysteroid pathway during the larva development. Nevertheless, the genes involved in JH synthesis revealed an increased expression in drones. The upregulation of <i>jhamt</i> gene involved in methyl farnesoate (MF) synthesis came into attention since the MF is not only a precursor of JH but it is also an insect pheromone in its own right as well as JH-like hormone in Acari. This could indicate a possible kairomone effect of MF for attracting the mites into the drone brood cells, along with its potential involvement in ovogenesis after the cell capping, stimulating <i>Varroa</i>'s initiation of egg laying.</p>
Figure 8 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 8 - Seasonal variations in lipofuscin accumulation between summer and winter bees of the same race. Asterisks (*) in the graph represent significant differences between the groups (LSD test at p ≤ 0.05).
Figure 7 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 7 - Inter-race comparison of lipofuscin accumulation A summer bees B winter bees. Graph bars headed by the same letter represent non-significant differences between the groups (LSD test at p ≤ 0.05).
Figure 6 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 6 - Comparisons between nurse and forager bees in the accumulation of lipofuscin in hypopharyngeal glands. A summer bees B winter bees. Asterisks (*) in the graph represent significant differences between the groups (LSD test at p ≤ 0.05).
Figure 5 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 5 - Lipofuscin accumulation (black granular structures: arrows) in the hypopharyngeal glands of nurse and forager bees A A. m. carnica nurse B A. m. carnica forager C A. m. jemenitica nurse D A. m. jemenitica forager E A. m. ligustica nurse F A. m. ligustica forager. (Images at 400× magnification).
Figure 4 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 4 - Inter-race comparison of acini size (length, width, and surface area) among the HPGs of A. mellifera A summer nurse B summer forager C winter nurse D winter forager. Graph bars headed by the same letter represent non-significant differences between the groups (LSD test at p ≤ 0.05).
Figure 3 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 3 - Acini sizes (length, width, and surface area) of nurse and forager bees. A A. m. jemenitica B A. m. carnica C A. m. ligustica . Nurse bees (summer & winter) had significantly larger acini than forager (summer & winter) bees in the three races. Asterisks (*) in the graphs represent the significant differences between the groups (LSD test at p ≤ 0.05).
Figure 2 from: Ali H, Alqarni AS, Iqbal J, Owayss AA, Raweh HS, Smith BH (2019) Effect of season and behavioral activity on the hypopharyngeal glands of three honey bee Apis mellifera L. races under stressful climatic conditions of central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 85-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.29678
Figure 2 - Acini in the hypopharyngeal glands of the nurse and forager bees. A A. m. carnica nurse B A. m. carnica forager C A. m. jemenitica nurse D A. m. jemenitica forager E A. m. ligustica nurse F A. m. ligustica forager. Scale bars: 6.2 mm (A), 4.2 mm (B), 7.6 mm (C), 7.9 mm (D), 9.8 mm (E), 5.6 mm (F). (Images at 20× magnification).
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