POPULATION AND BIOECONOMIC STUDIES ON THE HONEYBEE COLONIES .6. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK EFFICIENCY AND POPULATION-SIZE IN A HONEYBEE COLONY
POPULATION AND BIOECONOMIC STUDIES ON THE HONEYBEE COLONIES .6. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK EFFICIENCY AND POPULATION-SIZE IN A HONEYBEE COLONY
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10.1007/bf02515602
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1983-01-01
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FUKUDA, H
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FUKUDA, H
作为蜂群能量流动研究的一部分，本文用单蜂群研究了食物收入与蜂群增长、工作效率与蜂群大小的关系。将种群变动的年序列划分为初始增长期、主要增长期和收缩期，各期具有特征的年龄分布。生长初期的食物收入主要由幼鱼消费。过剩的食物收入积累在蜂箱内增加的主要时期。在生长初期，食物收入大致与总成虫数成正比，但进入主要生长期后，食物收入，尤其是花粉收入，取决于幼鱼数。觅食/工蜂比例（F/W）根据未成熟种群的大小而变化。花蜜采集者和花粉采集者占工蜂总数的比例（N/W和P/W）也有类似的变化趋势。育雏/工蜂比（B/W）仅在生长初期大于1，最大值为2.7。在主要时期的价值接近，但从来没有超过统一。随着收缩期的延长，该比率迅速下降。幼虫/工蜂比（L/W）与幼虫/工蜂比（B/W）的变化趋势相似，在生长初期为0.81-0.37，而在主生长期小于0.3。讨论了L/W比主要时期的低值与蜜蜂群体繁殖模式的关系。
As a part of the studies on the energy flow in honeybee colonies the relationships between food income and population growth, and between work efficiency and population size were studied using a single colony. Annual sequence of population fluctuation was divided in initial growth, major and contracting periods, each with characteristic age distribution. Food income in the initial growth period was consumed mainly by immatures. Excess food income accumulated within the hive increased during the major period. In the initial growth period, food income roughly paralleled the number of total adults, but after reaching the major period it, especially pollen income, depended on the number of immatures. Foragers/worker ratio (F/W) varied according to the size of immature population. A similar tendency was seen in ratios of nectar [N] and pollen [P] foragers to total worker population (N/W and P/W). Brood/worker ratio (B/W) was above unity only in the initial growth period, with the maximum value of 2.7. The value in the major period approached, but never exceeded unity. With the contracting period the ratio rapidly decreases. Larva/worker ratio (L/W) behaved similarly to the B/W ratio, ranging 0.81-0.37 in initial growth period and less than 0.3 with the major period. This lower value in the major period of L/W ratio was discussed in relation to the mode of colony reproduction particular to the honeybee.