Aerial defense of the nest by workers of the stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonisca) angustula (Latreille) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Aerial defense of the nest by workers of the stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonisca) angustula (Latreille) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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无刺蜂 Trigonisca (Tetragonisca) angustula (Latreille) 工蜂对巢穴的空中防御（膜翅目：蜜蜂科）
DOI：
10.1007/bf00295143
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
D. Wittmann
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作者：
D. Wittmann
无刺蜂Trigona（Tetragonisca）angustula在其巢入口处对飞行昆虫捕食者具有复杂的防御策略。成群的工蜂在进巢管前两侧盘旋，正对着一条通往巢穴的飞行走廊。进入这条走廊的入侵者受到这些蜜蜂从侧面和后面的攻击，并被蜜蜂咬到地面上。T. angustula受到Lestrimelitta limao的捕食，Lestrimelitta limao是一种无刺蜜蜂，它对其它巢穴进行有组织的袭击，以掠夺食物供应、幼虫供给和筑巢材料。L. limao在突袭期间，导致在T前面盘旋的守卫蜜蜂数量迅速增加。angustula nests.这种对柠檬醛的募集反应表明T. angustula是在L.柠檬醛在T. angustula作为报警利它素。
SummaryThe stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonisca) angustula has a sophisticated defense strategy against flying insect predators at the entrance of its nest. Groups of worker bees hover on both sides in front of the nest entrance tube, facing a flight corridor leading to the nest. Intruders which enter this corridor are attacked by these bees from the side and from behind and are forced to the ground by biting bees clinging to their wings. T. angustula is subject to predation by Lestrimelitta limao, a cleptobiotic stingless bee which performs organized raids on other nests to rob food supplies, larval provisions and nest constructing material. The presence of citral, released by L. limao during the raids, leads to a rapid increase in the number of hovering guard bees in front of T. angustula nests. This recruitment in response to citral suggests that the defense behavior in T. angustula has evolved under the pressure of L. limao raids and that citral functions in T. angustula as an alarm kairomone.