Adaptive shifts in honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) guarding behavior support predictions of the acceptance threshold model

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 326-333

  Downs, Stephen G ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptance thresholds; Conspecific recognition; Honey bees; Odor convergence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HONEYBEE; NEST GUARDING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0034108980     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.3.326     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Bourke AFG, Franks NR, 1995. Social evolution in ants. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
2. Bowden RM, Williamson S, Breed MD, 1998. Floral oils: their effects on nestmate recognition in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Insectes Soc 45:209-214.
3. Breed MD, 1983. Nestmate recognition in honey bees. Anim Behav 31:86-91.
4. Breed MD, 1987. Multiple inputs in the nestmate discrimination system of the honey bee. In: Chemistry and biology of social insects (Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Munich, 1986) (Eder J, Rembold H, eds). Perperny, Munich: Verlag; 461-462.
5. Breed MD, Butler L, Stiller TM, 1985. Kin discrimination by workers in genetically mixed groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82:3058-3061.
6. Breed MD, Garry MF, Pearce AN, Hibbard BE, Bjostad LB, Page Jr RE, 1995. The role of comb wax in honey bee nestmate recognition. Anim Behav 50:489-496.
7. Breed MD, Williams KR, Fewell JH, 1988. Comb wax mediates the acquisition of nest-mate recognition cues in honey bees. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:8766-8769.
8. Butler CG, 1954. The world of the honeybee. London: Collins.
9. Butler CG, Free JB, 1952. The behaviour of worker honeybees at the hive entrance. Behaviour 4:263-291.
10. Crozier RH, Pamilo P, 1996. Evolution of social insect colonies: sex allocation and kin recognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Downs SG, Ratnieks FLW, 1999. Recognition of conspecifics by honeybee guards uses non-heritable cues acquired in the adult stage. Anim Behav 58:643-648.
12. Downs SG, Ratnieks FLW, Jefferies SL, Rigby HE, in press. The role of floral oils in the nestmate recognition system of honey bees (Apis mellifera L). Apidologie.
13. Driessen GJJ, Van Raalte AT, De Bruyn GJ, 1984. Cannibalism in the red wood ant, Formica polyctena (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Oecologia 63:13-22.
14. Free JB, 1954. The behaviour of robber honeybees. Behaviour 7:233-240.
15. Free JB, 1977. The social organization of honey bees. London: Edward Arnold.
16. Gamboa GJ, Reeve HK, Holmes WG, 1991. Conceptual issues and methodology in kin recognition research - a critical discussion. Ethology 88:109-217.
17. Getz WM, 1981. Genetically based kin recognition system. J Theor Biol 92:209-226.
18. Getz WM, 1982. An analysis of learned kin recognition in Hymenoptera. J Theor Biol 99:585-597.
19. Getz WM, 1991. The honey bee as a model kin recognition system. In: Kin recognition (Hepper PG eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Hölldobler B, 1981. Foraging and spatiotemporal territories in the honey ant Myrmecocystus mimicus Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 9:301-314.
21. Hölldobler B, Wilson EO, 1978. The multiple recruitment system of the African weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda (Latrielle) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 3:19-60.
22. Hölldobler B, Wilson EO, 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
23. Inoue T, Roubik DW, Suka T, 1999. Nestmate recognition in the stingless bee Melipona panamica (Apidae, Meliponini). Insectes Soc 46: 208-218.
24. Kalmus H, Ribbands CR, 1952. The origin of the odours by which honeybees distinguish their companions. Proc R Soc Lond B 140: 50-59.
25. Kasuya E, Hibino Y, Itô Y, 1980. On 'intercolonial' cannibalism in Japanese paper wasps Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez and P. jadwigae Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Res Popul Ecol 22: 255-262.
26. Lacy RC, Sherman PW, 1983. Kin recognition by phenotype matching. Am Nat 116:489-512.
27. Lindauer M, 1961. Communication among social bees. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
28. Ratnieks FLW, 1991. The evolution of genetic cue diveristy in social hymenoptera. Am Nat 137:202-226.
29. Ratnieks FLW, Reeve HK, 1992. Conflict in single queen Hymenopteran societies: the structure of conflict and processes that reduce conflict in advanced eusocial species. J Theor Biol 158:33-65.
30. Reeve HK, 1989. The evolution of conspecific acceptance thresholds. Am Nat 133:407-435.
31. Ribbands CR, 1953. The behaviour and social life of bees. London: Bee Research Association.
32. Saleh-Mghir, E. 1992. Rôle de la nourriture dans la reconnaissance des congénères chez l'abeille, Apis mellifera L. Compt Rend Acad Sci Paris 315:343-346.
33. Seeley TD, 1985. Honeybee ecology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
34. Seeley TD, 1995. The wisdom of the hive. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
35. Sherman PW, Reeve HK, Pfennig DW, 1997. Recognition systems. In: Behavioural ecology (Krebs JR, Davies NB, eds). Oxford: Blackwell Science; 69-96.
36. Starks PT, Fischer DJ, Watson RE, Melikian L, Nath SD, 1998. Context-dependent nestmate discrimination in the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus: a critical test of the optimal acceptance threshold model. Anim Behav 56:449-458.
37. Visscher PK, 1983. The honey bee way of death: necrophoric behaviour in Apis mellifera colonies. Anim Behav 31:1070-1076.
38. von Frisch K, 1967. The dance language and orientation of bees. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
39. Wilson EO, 1971. The insect societies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
40. Winston ML, 1987. The biology of the honey bee. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.