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Apidologie
Volume 37, Number 4, July-August 2006
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Page(s) | 501 - 505 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2006032 | |
Published online | 29 June 2006 |
Apidologie 37 (2006) 501-505
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2006032
a Apicultural Division, Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland
b Apicultural Division, Warmia-Mazury University, Olsztyn, Poland
c Institute of Biological Science, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines
(Received 19 July 2005 - Revised 14 December 2005 - Accepted 6 January 2006 - published online 29 June 2006)
Key words: Apis dorsata / abdomen flipping / nest curtain / temperature correlation / Philippines
© INRA, DIB-AGIB, EDP Sciences 2006
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2006032
Abdomen flipping of Apis dorsata breviligula worker bees correlated with temperature of nest curtain surface
Jerzy Woykea, Jerzy Wildeb, Maria Wildeb and Cleofas Cervanciaca Apicultural Division, Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland
b Apicultural Division, Warmia-Mazury University, Olsztyn, Poland
c Institute of Biological Science, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines
(Received 19 July 2005 - Revised 14 December 2005 - Accepted 6 January 2006 - published online 29 June 2006)
Abstract - Apis laboriosa and Apis dorsata worker bees in the curtain covering the nest comb
perform dorso-ventral abdomen flipping (AF). Relationship between percentage
of bees performing AF and the nest surface temperature (t) or ambient
temperature (t
was investigated on A. dorsata breviligula nests in the Philippines. When
both temperatures dropped down the %AF increased. Partial correlation
showed, that the correlations between %AF and t
were about 4 times
higher than between %AF and t
. This support the hypothesis that
worker bees of the mantle of the curtain, which perform AF, react rather to
the temperature around them in the surface of the curtain than to ambient
temperature some distance apart.
Key words: Apis dorsata / abdomen flipping / nest curtain / temperature correlation / Philippines
© INRA, DIB-AGIB, EDP Sciences 2006