Hot bumble bees at good food: Thoracic temperature of feeding Bombus wilmattae foragers is tuned to sugar concentration

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 4185-4192

  Nieh, James C ^a   León, Adolfo ^b   Cameron, Sydney ^c   Vandame, Rémy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombus; Endothermy; Food quality; Foraging; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALORIC INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUGAR INTAKE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DIETARY SUCROSE; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 33845267421     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02528     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Baird, J. M. (1986). A field study of thermoregulation in the carpenter bee Xylocopa virginica virginica (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Physiol. Zool. 59, 157-168.
2. Baker, H. G. and Baker, I. (1982). Floral nectar sugar constituents in relation to pollinator type. In Handbook of Experimental Pollination Biology (ed. R. J. Little), pp. 117-141. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
3. Balderrama, N. M., de Almeida, B. L. O. and Nunez, J. A. (1992). Metabolic rate during foraging in the honeybee. J. Comp. Physiol. B 162, 440-447.
4. Blatt, J. and Roces, F. (2001). Haemolymph sugar levels in foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera carnica): dependence on metabolic rate and in vivo measurement of maximal rates of trehalose synthesis. J. Exp. Biol. 204, 2709-2716.
5. Blatt, J. and Roces, F. (2002). The control of the proventriculus in the honeybee (Apis mellifera carnica L.). I. A dynamic process influenced by food quality and quantity? J. Insect Physiol. 48, 643-654.
6. Bubnik, Z., Kadlec, P., Urban, D. and Bruhns, M. (1995). Sugar Technologists Manual. Berlin: Bartens.
7. Bujok, B., Kleinhenz, M., Fuchs, S. and Tautz, J. (2002). Hot spots in the bee hive. Naturwissenschaften 89, 299-301.
8. Chittka, L., Dyer, A. G., Bock, F. and Dornhaus, A. (2003). Psychophysics: bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy. Nature 424, 388.
9. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). Descriptions and records of bees. XLV. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8, 327-344.
10. Coelho, J. R. (1991). The effect of thorax temperature on force production during tethered flight in honeybee (Apis mellifera) drones, workers, and queen. Physiol. Zool. 64, 823-835.
11. Corbet, S. A., Fussell, M., Ake, R., Fraser, A., Gunson, C., Savage, A. and Smith, K. (1993). Temperature and the pollinating activity of social bees. Ecol. Entomol. 18, 17-30.
12. Dornhaus, A. and Cameron, S. (2003). A scientific note on food alert in Bombus transversalis. Apidologie 34, 87-88.
13. Dornhaus, A. and Chittka, L. (1999). Evolutionary origins of bee dances. Nature 401, 38.
14. Dornhaus, A. and Chittka, L. (2004). Information flow and foraging decisions in bumble bees (Bombus spp.). Apidologie 35, 183-192.
15. Dyer, A. G., Whitney, H. M., Arnold, S. E. J., Glover, B. J. and Chittka, L. (2006). Bees associate warmth with floral color. Nature 442, 525.
16. Dyer, C. D. and Seeley, T. D. (1987). Interspecific comparison of endothermy in honey bees (Apis): deviations from the expected size-related patterns. J. Exp. Biol. 127, 1-26.
17. Esch, H. (1960). Über die körpertemperaturen und den wärmehaushalt von Apis mellifica. Z. Vergl. Physiol. 43, 305-335.
18. Esch, H. (1976). Body temperature and flight performance of honey bees in a servomechanically controlled wind tunnel. J. Comp. Physiol. 109, 254-277.
19. Esch, H. and Goller, F. (1991). How do bees shiver? Naturwissenschaften 78, 325-328.
20. Farina, W. M. and Wainselboim, A. J. (2001). Changes in the thoracic temperature of honeybees while receiving nectar from foragers collecting at different reward rates. J. Exp. Biol. 204, 1653-1658.
21. Feuerbacher, E., Fewell, J. H., Roberts, S. P., Smith, E. F. and Harrison, J. F. (2003). Effects of load type (pollen or nectar) and load mass on hovering metabolic rate and mechanical power output in the honey bee Apis mellifera. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 1855-1865.
22. Heinrich, B. (1972a). Energetics of temperature regulation and foraging in a bumblebee, Bombus terricola Kirby. J. Comp. Physiol. 77, 49-64.
23. Heinrich, B. (1972b). Temperature regulation in the bumblebee Bombus vagans: a field study. Science 175, 185-187.
24. Heinrich, B. (1974). Thermoregulation in endothermic insects. Science 185, 747-756.
25. Heinrich, B. (1979). Thermoregulation of African and European honeybees during foraging, attack, and hive exits and returns. J. Exp. Biol. 80, 217-229.
26. Heinrich, B. (1993). The Hot-blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanisms of Thermoregulation. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
27. Heinrich, B. and Heinrich, M. J. E. (1983a). Heterothermia in foraging workers and drones of the bumblebee Bombus terricola. Physiol. Zool. 56, 563-567.
28. Heinrich, B. and Heinrich, M. J. E. (1983b). Size and caste in temperature regulation by bumblebees. Physiol. Zool. 56, 552-562.
29. Heinrich, B. and Kammer, A. E. (1973). Activation of the fibrillar muscles in the bumblebee during warm-up, stabilization of thoracic temperature and flight. J. Exp. Biol. 58, 677-688.
30. Himmer, A. (1932). Die Temperatureverhältnisse bei den sozialen Hymenopteren. Biol. Rev. 7, 224-253.
31. Hölldobler, B. and Wilson, E. O. (1990). The Ants. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
32. Kleinhenz, M., Bujok, B., Fuchs, S. and Tautz, J. (2003). Hot bees in empty broodnest cells: heating from within. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 4217-4231.
33. Labougle, J. M. (1990). Bombus of Mexico and Central America (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Uni. Kansas Sci. Bull. 54, 35-73.
34. May, M. L. (1979). Insect thermoregulation. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 24, 313-349.
35. Moffatt, L. (2001). Metabolic rate and thermal stability during honeybee foraging at different reward rates. J. Exp. Biol. 204, 759-766.
36. Moffatt, L. and Nunez, J. A. (1997). Oxygen consumption in the foraging honeybee depends on the reward rate at the food source. J. Comp. Physiol. B 167, 36-42.
37. Nieh, J. C. and Sánchez, D. (2005). Effect of food quality, distance, and height on thoracic temperatures in a stingless bee, Melipona panamica. J. Exp. Biol. 208, 3933-3943.
38. Roubik, D. W., Yanega, D., Aluja, S. M., Buchmann, S. L. and Inouye, D. W. (1995). On optimal nectar foraging by some tropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 26, 197-211.
39. Rzedowski, J. (1978). Vegetacion de Mexico. Mexico: Limusa.
40. Schmaranzer, S. and Stabentheiner, A. (1988). Variability of the thermal behavior of honeybees on a feeding place. J. Comp. Physiol. B 158, 135-142.
41. Spaethe, J., Tautz, J. and Chittka, L. (2001). Visual constraints in foraging bumblebees: flower size and color affect search time and flight behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 3898-3903.
42. Stabentheiner, A. (1996). Effect of foraging distance on the thermal behaviour of honeybees during dancing, walking and trophallaxis. Ethology 102, 360-370.
43. Stabentheiner, A. (2001). Thermoregulation of dancing bees: thoracic temperature of pollen and nectar foragers in relation to profitability of foraging and colony need. J. Insect Physiol. 47, 385-392.
44. Stabentheiner, A. and Hagmüller, K. (1991). Sweet food means hot dancing in honeybees. Naturwissenschaften 78, 471-473.
45. Stabentheiner, A. and Schmaranzer, S. (1987). Thermographic determination of body temperatures in honey bees and hornets: calibration and applications. Thermology 2, 563-572.
46. Stabentheiner, A., Hagmüller, K. and Kovac, H. (1990). Thermisches Verhalten von Hongibienen im Schwänzeltanz. Verh. Dtsch. Zool. Ges. 83, 624.
47. Stabentheiner, A., Kovac, H. and Hagmuller, K. (1995). Thermal behavior of round and wagtail dancing honeybees. J. Comp. Physiol. B 165, 433-444.
48. Stabentheiner, A., Helmut, K. and Schmaranzer, S. (2004). Der Einfluss der Eonnenstrahlung auf die Korpertemperatur Wasser sammelnder Wespen (Paravespula germanica). Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. Allg. Angew. Entomol. 14, 451-454.
49. Stone, G. N. (1993). Thermoregulation in four species of tropical solitary bees: the roles of size, sex and altitude. J. Comp. Physiol. B 163, 317-326.
50. Stone, G. N. (1994). Patterns of evolution of warm-up rates and body temperatures in flight in solitary bees of the genus Anthophora. Funct. Ecol. 8, 324-335.
51. Stone, G. N. and Willmer, P. G. (1989). Warm-up rates and body temperatures in bees: the importance of body size, thermal regime, and phylogeny. J. Exp. Biol. 147, 303-328.
52. Underwood, B. A. (1991). Thermoregulation and energetic decision-making by the honeybees Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis laboriosa. J. Exp. Biol. 157, 19-34.
53. von Frisch, K. (1967). The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
54. Waddington, K. D. (1990). Foraging profits and thoracic temperature of honey bees (Apis mellifera). J. Comp. Physiol. B 160, 325-329.
55. Zar, J. H. (1984). Biostatistical Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.