EDP Sciences logo
Search
Menu
All issues Volume 33 / No 2 (March-April 2002) Apidologie, 33 2 (2002) 165-192 References
Free Access
Issue
Apidologie
Volume 33, Number 2, March-April 2002
The Cape honeybee (Apis mellifera capensis). From laying workers to social parasites
Page(s) 165 - 192
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2002008

References

  • Allsopp M.H. (1992) The capensis calamity, S. Afr. Bee J. 64, 52-55.
  • Allsopp M.H. (1993) Summarized overview of the capensis problem, S. Afr. Bee J. 65, 127-136.
  • Allsopp M.H. (1995) The Capensis problem 1992-1995, in: Magnuson P. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Electronic Conference on the Cape Bee problem in South Africa, 5-30 June 1995, PPRI, Pretoria, pp. 10-31.
  • Allsopp M.H. (1998) Capensis remnants do abscond, S. Afr. Bee J. 70, 156-160.
  • Allsopp M.H., Crewe R. (1993) The Cape honeybee as a Trojan horse rather than the hordes of Jenghiz Khan, Am. Bee J. 133, 121-123.
  • Allsopp M.H., Hepburn H.R. (1997) Swarming, supersedure and the mating system of a natural population of honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis), J. Apic. Res. 36, 41-48.
  • Anderson R.H. (1963) The laying worker in the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, J. Apic. Res. 2, 85-92.
  • Anderson R.H. (1965) The island breeding station, S. Afr. Bee J. 37, 9-12.
  • Anderson R.H. (1968) The effect of queen loss on colonies of Apis mellifera capensis, S. Afr. J. Agric. Sci. 11, 383-388.
  • Anderson R.H. (1977) Some aspects of the biology of the Cape honeybee, in: Fletcher D.J.C. (Ed.), Proc. Apimondia Int. Symp. on the Taxonomy, Biology and Economic Use of African Bees, Pretoria, pp. 107-114.
  • Beekman M., Calis J.N.M., Boot W.J. (2000) Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment, Nature 404, 723.
  • Buys B. (1984) Cape worker-bees dislike African virgin queens, S. Afr. Bee J. 54, 86-90.
  • Calis J.N.M., Boot W.J., Allsopp M.H., Beekman M. (2002) Getting more than a fair share: nutrition of worker larvae related to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis, Apidologie 33, 193-202.
  • Crewe R.M., Velthuis H.H.W. (1980) False queens: a consequence of mandibular gland signals in worker honeybees, Naturwissenschaften 67, 467-469.
  • Crewe R.M., Wossler T.C., Allsopp M.H. (1990) Workers in queen's clothing: why capensis workers become pseudoqueens, in: Anderson R.H., Buys B. (Eds.), Bees and Beekeeping in Southern Africa, Apimondia, Stellenbosch, pp. 83-89.
  • Crozier R.H., Pamilo P. (1996) Evolution of social insect colonies, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Free J.B. (1958) The drifting of honeybees, J. Agric. Sci. 51, 294-306.
  • Greeff M.J. (1996) Effects of thelytokous worker reproduction on kin-selection and conflict in the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B 351, 617-625.
  • Greeff M.J. (1997) The Cape honeybee and her way north: an evolutionary perspective, S. Afr. J. Sci. 93, 306-308.
  • Guy R.D. (1975) General Moodie and the African Bee move south, S. Afr. Bee J. 47, 4-5.
  • Hannabus C.H. (1945) District notes. Paternoster, C.P, S. Afr. Bee J. 20, 16.
  • Hastings H. (1989) Two aspects of the biology of an African honeybee Apis mellifera scutellata (Hymenoptera, Apidae) laying workers and colony defense behaviour, Ph.D. thesis, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
  • Hepburn H.R. (1988) Absconding in the African honeybee: the queen, engorgement and wax secretion, J. Apic. Res. 27, 95-102.
  • Hepburn H.R. (1992) Pheromonal and ovarial development co-vary in Cape worker honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis, Naturwissenschaften 79, 523- 524.
  • Hepburn H.R. (1993) Swarming, absconding and migration in southern African bees, S. Afr. Bee J. 65, 61-66.
  • Hepburn H.R. (1994) Reproductive cycling and hierarchical competition in Cape honeybees, Apis mellifera capensis Esch., Apidologie 25, 38-48.
  • Hepburn H.R., Whiffler L.A. (1988) Dwarfs and queenballs in swarms of the Cape honeybee, S. Afr. J. Sci. 84, 851-852.
  • Hepburn H.R., Crewe R.M. (1991) Portrait of the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, Apidologie 22, 567-580.
  • Hepburn H.R., Jacot Guillarmod A. (1991) The Cape honeybee and the fynbos biome, S. Afr. J. Sci. 87, 70-73.
  • Hepburn H.R., Allsopp M.H. (1994) Reproductive conflict between honeybees: usurpation of Apis mellifera scutellata colonies by Apis mellifera capensis, S. Afr. J. Sci. 90, 247-249.
  • Hepburn H.R., Radloff S.E., Honeybees of Africa, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998.
  • Hepburn R., Radloff S.E. (2002) Apis mellifera capensis: an essay on the subspecific classification of honeybees, Apidologie 33, 105-127.
  • Hepburn H.R., Nefdt R.J.C., Whiffler L.A. (1988) Queen loss in the Cape honeybee: the interactions of brood, laying workers (false queens?) and queen cells, S. Afr. J. Sci. 80, 363-368.
  • Hepburn H.R., Magnuson P., Herbert L., Whiffler L.A. (1991) The development of laying workers in field colonies of the Cape honeybee, J. Apic. Res. 30, 13-16.
  • Hepburn H.R., Villet M.H., Jones G.E., Carter A.R., Simon U.I., Coetzer W. (1993) Winter absconding as a dispersal mechanism of the Cape honeybee, S. Afr. J. Sci. 89, 294-297.
  • Hepburn H.R., Jones G.E., Kirby R. (1994) Introgression between Apis mellifera capensis Escholtz and Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier: the sting pheromones, Apidologie 25, 557-565.
  • Hepburn H.R., Reece S., Neumann P., Moritz R.F.A., Radloff S.E. (1999) Absconding in honeybees (Apis mellifera) in relation to queenstate and mode of worker reproduction, Insectes Soc. 46, 323-326.
  • Herman R.H. (1922) Monster swarm, S. Afr. Bee J. 2, 25.
  • Hillesheim E., Koeniger N., Moritz R.F.A. (1989) Colony performance in honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.) depends on the proportion of subordinate and dominant workers, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 24, 291-296.
  • Hölldobler B., Wilson E.O. (1990) The ants, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
  • Jay S.C. (1966a) Drifting of honeybees in commercial apiaries. II. Effect of various factors when colonies are arranged in rows, J. Apic. Res. 5, 103-112.
  • Jay S.C. (1966b) Drifting of honeybees in commercial apiaries. III. Effect of apiary layout, J. Apic. Res. 5, 137-148.
  • Jay S.C. (1968) Drifting of honeybees in commercial apiaries. IV. Further studies on the effect of apiary layout, J. Apic. Res. 7, 37-44.
  • Johannsmeier M.F. (1983) Experiences with the Cape bee in the Transvaal, S. Afr. Bee J. 55, 130-138.
  • Johannsmeier M.F. (1992) The Cape bee: a problem in the Transvaal. Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, Leaflet.
  • Kigatiira K.I. (1988) Amalgamation in tropical honey bees, in: Needham G.R., Page R.E., Delfinado-Baker M., Bowman C.E. (Eds.), Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, UK, pp. 62-71.
  • Koeniger N., W,rkner W. (1992) Die Kap-honigbienen (Apis mellifera capensis). Natürliche Verbreitung und die Schwierigkeiten der Haltung unter unseren klimatischen Bedingungen, Die Biene 128, 583-588.
  • Kryger P. (2001a) The Capensis pseudo-clone, a social parasite of African honey bees, in: Proc. 2001 Berlin Meeting of the European Section of IUSSI, Sept. 25-29, p. 208.
  • Kryger P. (2001b) The pseudo-clone of Apis mellifera capensis - an obligate social parasite in honeybees, in: Proc. XXXVII Int. Apicultural Congr., Durban South Africa, p. 33.
  • Lattorff H.M.G., Neumann P., Moritz R.F.A. (2001) Spatial separation of pseudoqueens in queenless Cape honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera capensis Escholtz), in: Proc. IUSSI - Meeting of the European sections, Berlin, Germany, p. 105.
  • Lindauer M. (1952) Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Arbeitsteilung im Bienenstaat, Z. Vergl. Physiol. 34, 299-345.
  • Lear E. (1992) The capensis problem, S. Afr. Bee J. 64, 87-89.
  • Lundie A.E. (1954) Laying workers produce worker bees, S. Afr. Bee J. 29, 10-11.
  • Martin S., Beekman M., Wossler T.C., Ratnieks F.L.W. (2002a) Parasitic honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade worker policing, Nature 415, 163-165.
  • Martin S., Wossler T., Kryger P. (2002b) Usurpation of African Apis mellifera scutellata colonies by parasitic Apis mellifera capensis workers, Apidologie 33, 215-232.
  • Magnuson P. (1995) Field observations, in: Magnuson P. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Electronic Conference on the Cape Bee problem in South Africa, 5-30 June 1995, PPRI, Pretoria, pp. 5-9.
  • Miller D.G., Ratnieks F.L.W. (2001) The timing of worker reproduction and breakdown of policing behaviour in queenless honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) societies, Insectes Soc. 48, 178-184.
  • Moodie G. (1983) Reasons for the survival of the Cape bee, S. Afr. Bee J. 55, 34-37.
  • Moore W.E. (1911) What distances do swarms travel?, S. Afr. Bee J. 63, 75-76.
  • Moritz R.F.A. (2002) Population dynamics of the Cape bee phenomenon: The impact of parasitic laying worker clones in apiaries and natural populations, Apidologie 33, 233-244.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Hillesheim E. (1985) Inheritance of dominance in honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis), Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 17, 87-89.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Page R.E. (1999) Behavioral threshold variability: costs and benefits in insect societies, in: Detrain C.J., Pasteels J. Deneubourg J.L. (Eds.), Information processing in Social Insects, Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 203-215.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Kryger P., Allsopp M.H. (1996) Competition for royalty in bees, Nature 384, 31.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Beye M., Hepburn R.H. (1998) Estimating the contribution of laying workers to population fitness in African honeybees (Apis mellifera) with molecular markers, Insectes Soc. 45, 277-287.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Kryger P., Allsopp M.H. (1999) Lack of worker policing in the Cape honeybee (Apis mellifera capensis), Behavior 136, 1079-1092.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Simon U., Crewe R.M. (2000) Pheromonal contest between honeybee workers, Naturwissenschaften 87, 395-397.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Crewe R.M., Hepburn H.R. (2001a) The role of the queen for the spatial distribution of workers in Apis mellifera, Ethology 107, 1-13.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Crewe R., Hepburn H.R. (2001b) Clustering of related workers in the honeybee colony (Apis mellifera L.): adaptive process or inevitable pattern?, Apidologie 31, 223-233.
  • Moritz R.F.A., Crewe R.M., Hepburn H.R. (2002) Queen evasion and mandibular gland secretion of honeybee workers (Apis mellifera L.), Insectes Soc., in press.
  • Neumann P., van Praagh J., Moritz R.F.A., Dustmann J. (1999) Testing reliability of a potential island mating apiary using DNA-microsatellites, Apidologie 30, 257-276.
  • Neumann P., Hepburn H.R., Radloff S.E. (2000a) Modes of worker reproduction, reproductive dominance and brood cell construction in queenless honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies, Apidologie 31, 479-486.
  • Neumann P., Moritz R.F.A., Mautz D. (2000b) Colony evaluation is not affected by the drifting of drone and worker honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) at a performance testing apiary, Apidologie 31, 67-79.
  • Neumann P., Pirk C.W.W., Hepburn H.R., Radloff S.E. (2001a) A scientific note on the natural merger of two honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera capensis), Apidologie 32, 113-114.
  • Neumann P., Pirk C.W.W., Moritz R.F.A., Hepburn H.R. (2001b) Trade off between dispersal capacity and virulence in a social parasitic Cape honeybee clone (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.), in: Proc. IUSSI - Meeting of the European sections, Berlin, Germany, p. 106.
  • Neumann P., Radloff S.E., Moritz R.F.A., Hepburn H.R., Reece S.L. (2001c) Social parasitism by honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis Escholtz): Host finding and resistance of hybrid host colonies, Behav. Ecol. 12, 419-428.
  • Onions G.W. (1912) South African `fertile worker bees', Agric. J. Union S. Afr. 1, 720-728.
  • Pettey F.W. (1922) Workers laying in comb of extracting supers, Elsenberg Apiary, J. Dept. Agric. Union South Afr. 4, 122-124.
  • Pfeiffer K.J., Crailsheim K. (1998) Drifting of honeybees, Insectes Soc. 45, 151-167.
  • Pirk C.W.W., Neumann P., Hepburn H.R. (2002) Egg laying and egg removal by workers are positively correlated in queenright Cape honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera capensis), Apidologie 33, 203-211.
  • Radloff S.E., Hepburn R., Neumann P., Moritz R.F.A., Kryger P. (2002) A method for estimating variation in the phenotypic expression of morphological characters by thelytokous parthenogenesis in Apis mellifera capensis, Apidologie 33, 129-137.
  • Rauschmayer F. (1928) Das Verfliegen der Bienen und die optische Orientierung am Bienenstand, Archiv Bienenkd. 9, 249-322.
  • Ratnieks F.L.W. (1993) Egg-laying, egg-removal, and ovary development by workers in queenright honey bee colonies, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 32 191-198.
  • Ratnieks F.L.W., Visscher P.K. (1989) Worker policing in the honey bee, Nature 342, 796-797.
  • Reece S.L. (2002) A scientific note on the ovarial and pheromonal development of drifted and non-drifted Cape honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis), Apidologie 33, 213-214.
  • Reeve H.K. (1989) The evolution of conspecific acceptance thresholds, Am. Nat. 133, 407-435.
  • Renz M., Rosenkranz P. (2001) Infestation dynamics and reinvasion of Varroa destructor mites in honey bee colonies kept isolated and in groups, Apidologie 32, 492-494.
  • Ribbands C.R. (1953) The behaviour and social life of honeybees, Bee Research Association Limited, London, UK.
  • Ruttner F., Hesse B. (1981) Rassenspezifische Unterschiede in Ovarentwicklung und Eiablage von weisellosen Arbeiterinnen der Honigbiene Apis mellifera L., Apidologie 12, 159-183.
  • Ruttner F. (1992) Naturgeschichte der Honigbienen, Ehrenwirth Verlag, M,nchen.
  • Schmid-Hempel P. (1998) Parasites in social insects, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, USA.
  • Seeley T.D. (1985) Honeybee Ecology, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, USA.
  • Silberrad R.E.M. (1976) Bee-Keeping in Zambia, Apimondia, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Simon U., Moritz R.F.A., Crewe R.M. (2001) The ontogenetic pattern of mandibular gland components in queenless worker honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.), J. Insect Physiol. 47, 735-738.
  • Solignac M., Kryger P., Allsopp M.H., Mougel F., Koeniger N., Baudry E., Cornuet J.M. (2001) Thelytoky in Cape honey bees: a genomic perspective, in: Proc. 2001 Berlin Meeting of the European Section of IUSSI, Sept. 25-29, p. 147.
  • Steinhobel F. (1977) Swarming on the Aloes and its utilization for making increase, in: Fletcher D.J.C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Apimondia International Symposium on the Taxonomy, Biology and Economic Use of African Bees, Pretoria, pp. 152-156.
  • Stuart-Findlay M. (1953) Notes from the Western Province, S. Afr. Bee J. 28, 19-20.
  • Swart J.D., Johannsmeier M.F., Tribe G.D., Kryger P. (2001) Diseases and pests of honeybees, in: Johannsmeier M.F. (Ed.), Beekeeping in South Africa, 3rd edition, revised, Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 14, Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, pp. 198-222.
  • Tribe G.D. (1981) Cape honeybee behaviour, S. Afr. Bee J. 53, 10-12.
  • Tribe G.D. (1982) Do workers move eggs?, S. Afr. Bee J. 54, 18-19.
  • Tribe G.D. (1983) What is the Cape bee?, S. Afr. Bee J. 55, 77-87.
  • Tribe G.D., Allsopp M.H. (2001a) Honeybee activities and behaviour, in: Johannsmeier M.F. (Ed.), Beekeeping in South Africa, 3rd edition, revised, Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 14, Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, pp. 27-38.
  • Tribe G.D., Allsopp M.H. (2001b) Honeybee reproduction, in: Johannsmeier M.F. (Ed.), Beekeeping in South Africa, 3rd edition, revised, Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 14, Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, pp. 40-45.
  • Velthuis H.H.W. (1970) Ovarian development in Apis mellifera worker bees, Entomol. Exp. Applic. 13, 294-377.
  • Velthuis H.H.W. (1976) Egg laying, aggression and dominance in bees, in: Proc. 15th Int. Congr. Entomology, Washington, pp. 436-449.
  • Velthuis H.H.W., Ruttner F., Crewe R.M. (1990) Differentiation in reproductive physiology and behaviour during the development of laying worker honey bees, in: Engels W. (Ed.), Social Insects, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 231-243.
  • Vergara C., Dretz A., Percz de Leon A. (1993) Female parasitism of European honey bees by Africanized honey bee swarms in Mexico, J. Apic. Res. 32, 34-40.
  • Visscher P.K. (1996) Reproductive conflict in honey bees: a stalemate of worker egg-laying and policing, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 39, 237-242.
  • Visscher P.K., Dukas R. (1995) Honey bees recognise development of nestmates' ovaries, Anim. Behav. 49, 542-544.
  • Walter A.R. (1939) Notes from the districts, S. Afr. Bee J. 13, 4-6.
  • Wossler T.C. (1991) Social dominance of Apis mellifera capensis workers in A. m. scutellata colonies, in: Proc. 8th Entomol. Congr., Entomological Society of Southern Africa, Bloemfontein, p. 175.
  • Wossler T.C. (2002) Pheromone mimicry by Apis mellifera capensis social parasites leads to reproductive anarchy in host Apis mellifera scutellata colonies, Apidologie 33, 139-163.
  • Woyke J. (1979) New investigations on Apis mellifera capensis, Apiacta 14, 173.
  • Woyke J. (1995) Invasion of Capensis bee, in: Magnuson P. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Electronic Conference on the Cape Bee problem in South Africa, 5-30 June 1995, Pretoria, PPRI, p. 35.
Abstract

Copyright INRA/DIB/AGIB/EDP Sciences