Nectar-foraging characteristics of africanized and european honeybees in the neotropics

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 70-79

  Rinderer, Thomas E ^a   Bolten, Alan B ^a,b   Collins, Anita M ^a   Harbo, John R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002858982     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00218839.1984.11100611     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bolten, A. B.; Feinsinger, P.; Baker, H. G.; Baker, I. (1979) On the calculation of sugar concentration in flower nectar. Oecologia 41: 301–304
2. Crane, E. (1975) The flowers honey comes from. pp. 3–76 from Honey: a comprehensive survey. Ed. E. Crane. London: Heinemann in co-operation with International Bee Research Association
3. Fletcher, D. J. C. (1978) The African bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, in Africa. A. Rev. Ent. 23: 151–171
4. Frankie, G. W.; Baker, H. G.; Opler, P. A. (1974) Comparative phenological studies of trees in tropical wet and dry forest in the lowlands of Costa Rica. J. Ecol. 62: 881–913
5. Free, J. B.; Williams, H. I. (1972) Hoarding by honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Anim. Behav. 20: 327–334
6. Gary, N. E.; Lorenzen, K. (1976) A method for collecting the honey-sac contents from honeybees. J. apic. Res. 15: 73–79
7. Gonçalves, L. S. (1975) Do the Africanized bees of Brazil only sting? Am. Bee J. 115: 8–10, 24
8. Inouye, D. W.; Favre, N. D.; Lanum, J. A.; Levine, M. D.; Meyers, J. B.; Roberts, M. S.; Tsao, F. C.; Wong, Y. (1980) The effects of nonsugar nectar constituents on estimates of nectar energy content. Ecology 61: 992–996
9. Johnson, L. K.; Hubbell, S. P. (1975) Contrasting foraging strategies and co-existence of two bee species on a single resource. Ecology 56: 1398–1406
10. Junk, W. R.; Pancoast, H. M. (1973) Handbook of sugars for processors, chemists and technologists. Westport, CT, USA: Avi
11. Kulinčević, J. M.; Rothenbuhler, W. C. (1973) Laboratory and field measurements of hoarding behaviour in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).J. apic. Res. 12: 179–182
12. Michener, C. D. (1975) The Brazilian bee problem. A. Rev. Ent. 20: 399–416
13. Nunez, J. A., (1973) Quantitative investigation of the behaviour of Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola and Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille: energy factors, forager recruitment and foraging activity. Apiacta 8: 151–154
14. Nunez, J. A., (1979) Times spent on various components of foraging activity: comparisons between European and Africanized honeybees in Brazil. J. apic. Res. 18: 100–115
15. Oertel, E.; Rinderer, T. E.; Harville, B. G. (1980) Changing trends in Southeastern Louisiana honey production through 25 years. Am. Bee J. 102: 763–765
16. Percival, M. S. (1961) Types of nectar in angiosperms. New Phytol. 60: 235–281
17. Rinderer, T. E. (1981) Volatiles from empty comb increase hoarding by the honeybee. Anim. Behav. 29: 1275–1276
18. Rinderer, T. E. (1982a) Maximal stimulation by comb of honey bee hoarding behaviour. Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 75: 311–312
19. Rinderer, T. E. (1982b) Regulated nectar-harvesting of the honeybee. J. apic. Res. 21: 74–87
20. Rinderer, T. E.; Baxter, J. R. (1978) Effect of empty comb on hoarding behaviour and honey production of the honey bee. J. econ. Ent. 71: 757–759
21. Rinderer, T. E. (1979) Honey bee hoarding behaviour: effects of previous stimulation by empty comb. Anim. Behav. 27: 426–428
22. Rinderer, T. E. (1980) Hoarding behavior of the honey bee: effects of empty comb, comb color and genotype. Envir. Ent. 9: 104–105
23. Rinderer, T. E.; Bolten, A. B.; Harbo, J. R.; Collins, A. M. (1982) Hoarding behavior of European and Africanized honey bees. J. econ. Ent. 75: 714–715
24. Ruttner, F. (1975) Races of bees. pp. 19–38 from The hive and the honeybee, eds. Dadant and Sons. Hamilton, Il., USA: Dadant & Sons
25. Snedecor, G. W.; Cochran, W. G. (1967) Statistical methods. Ames, IA, USA: Iowa Slate Univ. Press
26. Sylvester, H. A.; Rinderer, T. E.; Bolten, A. B. (1983) Honey-sac contents: a technique for collection and measurement in foraging honey bees. J. econ. Ent. 76: 204–206
27. Wykes, G. W. (1953) The sugar content of nectars. Biochem. J. 53: 294–296