The Fanner Honey Bee: Behavioral Variability and Environmental Cues in Workers Performing a Specialized Task

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• 作者：Rachel L. Egley (1)
  Michael D. Breed (1)
  
• 关键词：Honey bees ; task allocation ; environmental thresholds ; fanning ; guarding ; eusociality
• 刊名：Journal of Insect Behavior
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：26
• 期：2
• 页码：238-245
• 全文大小：171KB
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• 作者单位：Rachel L. Egley (1)
  Michael D. Breed (1)
  
  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309-0334, USA
  
• ISSN：1572-8889

文摘

We tested the hypothesis that Apis mellifera workers exhibit plasticity in moving from fanning to guarding behavior. Bees marked when fanning are more likely to guard than fan on subsequent days, but guard to fanner reversals were common. Our findings suggest that bees can switch between these tasks, but that their bias between the two tasks changes over time, rather than a strict serial progression of worker tasks. The number of fanning workers is positively correlated with ambient temperature and negatively correlated with humidity; this conclusion gives insight into the environmental triggers for worker behavior.