Presence or absence of drones in ‘drone’ dusk mass flights performed by Apis dorsata forager bees
| العنوان: | Presence or absence of drones in ‘drone’ dusk mass flights performed by Apis dorsata forager bees |
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| المؤلفون: | N. Nagaraja, Jerzy Wilde, Muniswamyreddy Shankar Reddy, Venkatarame Sivaram, Maria Wilde, Jerzy Woyke |
| المصدر: | ResearcherID |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2007. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Worker bee, Aculeata, biology, Apidae, Ecology, Insect Science, Dusk, Zoology, Apis dorsata, Hymenoptera, biology.organism_classification, Drone, Apoidea |
| الوصف: | SummaryApis dorsata drones perform dusk mass flights (DMF's) shortly after sunset. Bees performing DMF's were caught near the nests with insect nets. Presence of drones within captured bees was determined and the colour of worker bees was examined to classify them in age-colour categories. A total of 15,160 individual bees were examined. It was found that in the spring, drones were practically absent in arriving swarms. The percentage of drones, which participated in dusk mass flights, increased to 19% after the colonies stayed at the site for six weeks. A correlation was found between the duration of time the colonies stayed at the place and the percentage of drones, which performed those flights. In autumn, when environmental conditions deteriorated and the colonies migrated, drones were absent practically in all the colonies at the site. Of 4,450 bees captured in autumn, only 2 drones were found during 30 DMF's performed by 7 colonies. Thus, worker bees performed ‘drone’ DMF's despite the absence of dr... |
| تدمد: | 2078-6913 0021-8839 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::23c336dc89021c96cc2e78748a4b51f6 https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2007.11101365 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....23c336dc89021c96cc2e78748a4b51f6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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