Effects of body size and sociality on the anti-predator behaviour of foraging bees

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1473-1482

  Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a   Bosch, Jordi ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEE; BODY SIZE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE USE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84865558244     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19473.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bosch J. 1994. The nesting behavior of the mason bee Osmia cornuta (Latr) with special reference to its pollinating potential (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). - Apidologie 25: 84-93.
2. Bosch J. and Vicens N. 2002. Body size as an estimator of production costs in a solitary bee. - Ecol. Entomol. 27: 129-137.
3. Bosch J. and Vicens N. 2005. Sex allocation in the solitary bee Osmia cornuta: do females behave in agreement with Fisher's theory? - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 59: 124-132.
4. Bosch J. and Vicens N. 2006. Relationship between body size, provisioning rate, longevity and reproductive success in females of the solitary bee Osmia cornuta. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60: 26-33.
5. Clark C. W. and Dukas R. 1994. Balancing foraging and antipredator demands an advantage of sociality. - Am. Nat. 144: 542-548.
6. Danforth B. N. 1990. Provisioning behavior and the estimation of investment ratios in a solitary bee, Calliopsis (Hypomacrotera) persimilis (Cockerell) (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 27: 159-168.
7. Darveau C. A. et al. 2005. Allometric scaling of flight energetics in Panamanian orchid bees: a comparative phylogenetic approach. - J. Exp. Biol. 208: 3581-3591.
8. de Jong T. J. et al. 1993. Geitonogamy: the neglected side of selfing. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 8: 321-325.
9. Dreisig H. 1995. Ideal free distributions of nectar foraging bumblebees. - Oikos 72: 161-172.
10. Dukas R. 2001. Effects of perceived danger on flower choice by bees. - Ecol. Lett. 4: 327-333.
11. Dukas R. 2005. Bumble bee predators reduce pollinator density and plant fitness. - Ecology 86: 1401-1406.
12. Dukas R. and Morse D. H. 2003. Crab spiders affect flower visitation by bees. - Oikos 101: 157-163.
13. Dukas R. and Morse D. H. 2005. Crab spiders show mixed effects on flower-visiting bees and no effect on plant fitness components. - Ecoscience 12: 244-247.
14. Free J. B. and Williams I. H. 1975. Factors determining rearing and rejection of drones by the honeybee colony. - Anim. Behav. 23: 650-675.
15. Gadagkar R. 1990. Evolution of eusociality the advantage of assured fitness returns. - Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 329: 17-25.
16. Gonçalves-Souza T. et al. 2008. Trait-mediated effects on flowers: artificial spiders deceive pollinators and decrease plant fitness. - Ecology 89: 2407-2413.
17. Goulson D. et al. 2002. Can alloethism in workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, be explained in terms of foraging efficiency? - Anim. Behav. 64: 123-130.
18. Heiling A. M. and Herberstein M. E. 2004. Predator prey coevolution: Australian native bees avoid their spider predators. - Proc. R. Soc. B 271: S196-S198.
19. Heinrich B. 1979. Bumblebee economics. - Harvard Univ. Press.
20. Higginson A. D. and Gilbert F. 2004. Paying for nectar with wingbeats: a new model of honeybee foraging. - Proc. R. Soc. B 271: 2595-2603.
21. Higginson A. D. et al. 2010. The impact of flower-dwelling predators on host plant reproductive success. - Oecologia 164: 411-421.
22. Houston A. et al. 1988. Foraging strategy, worker mortality, and the growth of the colony in social insects. - Am. Nat. 131: 107-114.
23. Ings T. C. and Chittka L. 2008. Speed accuracy tradeoffs and false alarms in bee responses to cryptic predators. - Curr. Biol. 18: 1520-1524.
24. Ings T. C. and Chittka L. 2009. Predator crypsis enhances behaviourally mediated indirect effects on plants by altering bumblebee foraging preferences. - Proc. R. Soc. B 276: 2031-2036.
25. Jones E. I. 2010. Optimal foraging when predation risk increases with patch resources: an analysis of pollinators and ambush predators. - Oikos 119: 835-840.
26. Knerer G. 1992. The biology and social behaviour of Evylaeus malachurus (K.) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in different climatic regions of Europe. - Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 119: 261-290.
27. Kukuk P. F. and May B. 1991. Colony dynamics in a primitively eusocial halictine bee Lasioglossum (dialictus) zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). - Insectes Soc. 38: 171-189.
28. Michener C. D. 1974. The social behavior of the bees. - Harvard Univ. Press.
29. Müller C. B. and Schmid-Hempel P. 1992. Correlates of reproductive success among field colonies of Bombus lucorum: the importance of growth and parasites. - Ecol. Entomol. 17: 343-353.
30. Müller A. et al. 2006. Quantitative pollen requirements of solitary bees: implications for bee conservation and the evolution of bee flower relationships. - Biol. Conserv. 130: 604-615.
31. Neukirch A. 1982. Dependence of the life span of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) upon flight performance and energy consumption. - J. Comp. Physiol. 146: 35-40.
32. Pyke G. H. 1979. Optimal foraging in bumblebees: rule of movement between flowers within inflorescences. - Anim. Behav. 27: 1167-1181.
33. Stephen W. P. et al. 1969. The biology and external morphology of bees. - Oregon State Univ.
34. Suttle K. B. 2003. Pollinators as mediators of top-down effects on plants. - Ecol. Lett. 6: 688-694.
35. Tomkins J. L. et al. 2001. Brood-provisioning strategies in Dawson's burrowing bee, Amegilla dawsoni (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 50: 81-89.
36. Verdolin J. L. 2006. Meta-analysis of foraging and predation risk tradeoffs in terrestrial systems. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60: 457-464.