Longevity, food consumption, and foraging performance of Apis cerana and Apis mellifera in mixed colonies
| العنوان: | Longevity, food consumption, and foraging performance of Apis cerana and Apis mellifera in mixed colonies |
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| المؤلفون: | Zhenhong Wu, Wenchao Yang, Subas Pokhrel, Chuang Zhang, Xiaoqing Miao, Zachary Y. Huang |
| المساهمون: | Fujian Agricultural & Forestry University |
| المصدر: | Apidologie Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 2019, 50 (2), pp.153-162. ⟨10.1007/s13592-018-0626-7⟩ |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, Beekeeping, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], media_common.quotation_subject, Foraging, Zoology, Introduced species, medicine.disease_cause, survival, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, foraging, Pollen, medicine, Nectar, Apis cerana, media_common, biology, Longevity, Honey bee, biology.organism_classification, sugar consumption, 010602 entomology, Insect Science, Apis mellifera |
| الوصف: | International audience; AbstractApis cerana is an endemic species of honey bee in Asia. A. cerana is believed to have better adaptation to scattered nectar sources than Apis mellifera, which implies that honey can be harvested from A. cerana colonies, but A. mellifera will starve at the same location. We hypothesize that there are differences in foraging performance, worker longevity, and daily sugar consumption between A. cerana and A. mellifera workers. These parameters in both species were determined. A. cerana had longer longevity than A. mellifera if longevity was measured in caged bees without pollen or in mixed species colonies with A. mellifera queens, but A. mellifera had much longer longevity when measured inside cages provided with pollen. A. cerana also had more foraging trips and higher proportion of foragers than A. mellifera in mixed colonies. The daily sugar consumption of A. cerana workers was 32% of that of A. mellifera, perhaps mainly due to the smaller biomass of A. cerana workers. In addition, A. cerana workers showed significantly lower variance in daily sugar consumption. In conclusion, A. cerana has more foraging trips, higher forager proportion, less sugar consumption, and longer survival than those of A. mellifera, when measured inside the same colonies. These differences might explain why during a dearth or in scattered resource areas, A. cerana can store or produce more honey than A. mellifera. |
| تدمد: | 1297-9678 0044-8435 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13592-018-0626-7 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13592-018-0626-7⟩ |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::da1f6dd72f15bff18a7d252bbd54cd91 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-018-0626-7 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....da1f6dd72f15bff18a7d252bbd54cd91 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 12979678 00448435 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s13592-018-0626-7 |