THE GUARD HONEY-BEE - ONTOGENY AND BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY OF WORKERS PERFORMING A SPECIALIZED TASK
THE GUARD HONEY-BEE - ONTOGENY AND BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY OF WORKERS PERFORMING A SPECIALIZED TASK
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DOI：
10.1016/s0003-3472(87)80172-0
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发表时间：
1987-08-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
MOOR, MJ
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作者：
MOORE, AJ;BREED, MD;MOOR, MJ
守护是蜜蜂（Apis mellifera L.）相对未研究的方面，工人行为。本研究的目的是定量地描述个体发育和个体变异的守卫行为，工人的分配在一个殖民地的警卫人口，和殖民地间变异的守卫行为。守卫是由一群比觅食蜂年轻、比家蜂年长的独特工蜂执行的离散任务。看守的工人在7至22天之间开始了这种行为。发病的平均年龄的守卫不同，最小的平均年龄为13.6天，最大为16.0天的殖民地警卫。工人们担任警卫的时间长短各不相同。大多数蜜蜂守卫不到1天;然而，有些守卫长达6天。蜜蜂在一天中花在守卫上的时间越多，蜜蜂守卫超过一天的可能性就越大。守卫时间超过1天的蜜蜂也有更长和更频繁的个体守卫回合。所有被研究的殖民地都有警卫种群，但不是所有的工人都有警卫。在任何年龄组中，观察到相对较小比例的后卫。年龄组守卫的百分比在殖民地之间各不相同，守卫人口的规模也各不相同。守卫是一项专门的任务，很少有蜜蜂守卫，但守卫似乎不需要经验，因为很少有蜜蜂会长时间担任守卫。在个体发育的各个方面的守卫和工人守卫的分配有殖民地间的变化。这种变化进行了讨论，在工人行为的变化的其他研究。
Guarding is a relatively unstudied aspect of honey bee, Apis mellifera L., worker behaviour. The aim of this study was to characterize quantitatively the ontogeny and individual variability of guarding behaviour, the allocation of workers to the guard population in a colony, and the intercolonial variability of guarding behaviour. Guarding is a discrete task performed by a distinct group of workers that are younger than foragers and older than house bees. Workers that guarded initiated the behaviour between the ages of 7 and 22 days. The mean age of the onset of guarding varied; the minimum mean age of guards for a colony was 13.6 days and the maximum was 16.0 days. Workers varied in the length of time they spent as a guard. Most bees guarded for less than 1 day; however, some guarded up to 6 consecutive days. The more time a bee spent guarding during a day the more likely that the bee was to guard for more than 1 day. Bees that guarded for more than 1 day also had longer and more frequent individual guarding bouts. All colonies that were studied had guard populations, but not all workers guarded. A relatively small proportion of any age cohort was observed to guard. The percentage of an age cohort that guarded varied among colonies, as did the size of the guard population. Guarding is a specialized task in that few bees guard, but guarding does not appear to require experience because so few bees remained as guards for very long. There was intercolonial variation in all aspects of the ontogeny of guarding and in allocation of workers to guarding. This variation is discussed in the light of other studies of variation in worker behaviour.