Santa Anna-Aguayo Ariadna I, Celis-López Edmont, Schaffner Colleen M, Golubov Jordan, Eguiarte Luis E, Arroyo-Cosultchi Gabriel, Álvarez-Aquino Claudia, Durán-Barradas Zelene, Martínez Armando J
Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Dr. Luis Castelazo Ayala S/N Colonia Industrial Animas, Xalapa-Enríquez 91190, Veracruz, Mexico.
School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Psychology Department, Adams State University, Edgemont Blvd. 208, Alamosa, CO 81101, USA.
Insects. 2022 Oct 26;13(11):980. doi: 10.3390/insects13110980.
The behavior of bees is modulated by the presence of other bees and potentially by the visual information transmitted by the different body positions of bees while visiting flowers. We tested whether bee body position promoted the attraction and/or antagonistic behavior of con- and hetero-specific bees that interacted on prickly pear flowers of . To test this, we placed dummy model bees of and the native in flowers in three common body positions: alert, feeding, and horizontal. The results showed that dummy model bees in feeding and horizontal body positions attracted bees, while the alert position attracted native male . Male bees spent more time attacking model bees in horizontal and alert positions. The position of dummy bees also influenced response times. Bees of responded fastest to in the alert and horizontal position, male responded fastest to con-specific bees in the alert and feeding position, and female responded fastest to bees in the feeding position. reacted fastest to their con-specific bees in the alert and horizontal body positions. Our results demonstrate, for the first time in bees, that the position of individuals on a floral resource provides important visual information that modulates bee behavior, and illuminates aspects that likely have implications for bees in access to floral resources.
蜜蜂的行为会受到其他蜜蜂的存在的调节，并且可能会受到蜜蜂在采花时不同身体姿势所传递的视觉信息的调节。我们测试了蜜蜂的身体姿势是否会促进在仙人掌花上相互作用的同种和异种蜜蜂的吸引和/或拮抗行为。为了测试这一点，我们将[两种蜜蜂名称]的假模型蜜蜂以三种常见的身体姿势放置在花朵中：警戒姿势、取食姿势和水平姿势。结果表明，处于取食和水平身体姿势的假模型蜜蜂吸引了[一种蜜蜂名称]蜜蜂，而警戒姿势吸引了本地雄性[另一种蜜蜂名称]。雄性[一种蜜蜂名称]蜜蜂在水平和警戒姿势下花费更多时间攻击模型蜜蜂。假蜜蜂的姿势也影响了反应时间。[一种蜜蜂名称]的蜜蜂对处于警戒和水平姿势的[另一种蜜蜂名称]反应最快，雄性[另一种蜜蜂名称]对处于警戒和取食姿势的同种蜜蜂反应最快，雌性[一种蜜蜂名称]对处于取食姿势的[另一种蜜蜂名称]蜜蜂反应最快。[一种蜜蜂名称]在警戒和水平身体姿势下对其同种蜜蜂反应最快。我们的结果首次在蜜蜂中证明，个体在花卉资源上的姿势提供了重要的视觉信息，调节蜜蜂的行为，并揭示了可能对蜜蜂获取花卉资源有影响的方面。
