Biology of Conflict in Honey-Bee Colonies

蜂群冲突生物学

• 批准号: 8708668
• 负责人: Thomas Seeley
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-08-01 至 1990-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8708668&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biology; Conflict; Honey; Bee; Colonies

Interactions within animal societies are a complex mix of cooperation and conflict. This study will examine how the individuals in the honey-bee colony, a society exhibiting an extreme degree of cooperation, are nonetheless in conflict during certain of the colony's activities. The study focuses on the point of greatest conflict in honey-bee social life: the division of the colony between queens during swarming. It is among the first in hundreds of years of observations on bees to describe the behaviors of individual bees during swarming and afterswarming. Of special interest in this study is an understanding of how the bees decide which queens leave with swarms and how many swarms (queens) are produced, and how these decisions, resulting large-scale, colony-wide events, are built up from the behavior of individuals. This research will contribute to the general theory of social behavior by testing predictions of current evolutionary theory within a colony of advanced social insects. It will add to understanding of the way in which evolution shapes animal communication, and it will broaden our view of the nature of the societies of the advanced social insects by showing how, because they are genetically distinct, individuals within these societies may sharply conflict, although they so often cooperate. In addition, the control of swarming in honey bees remains one of the unsolved problems in practical management of honey bees for honey production and pollination of food crops. This research into the surprisingly little-studied social biology of swarming may thus have practical implications for the beekeeping industry and agriculture.

动物社会内部的相互作用是一种复杂的合作组合 和冲突 这项研究将探讨如何在个人 蜜蜂群体，一个社会表现出极端的 然而，在某些情况下， 殖民地的活动。 本研究的重点是蜜蜂最大的冲突点 社会生活：在殖民时期，女王之间的殖民地划分 蜂拥而至 它是数百年来最早的观测之一 描述蜂群中单个蜜蜂的行为 和后蜂拥。 这项研究中特别感兴趣的是一个 了解蜜蜂如何决定哪些蜂后随蜂群离开 有多少蜂群（蚁后）产生，以及这些决定， 由此产生的大规模，整个殖民地的事件，是建立在 个人的行为。 这项研究将有助于社会行为的一般理论 通过在一个群体中测试当前进化理论的预测， 高级社会性昆虫。 这将有助于理解 进化塑造了动物的交流， 我们对高级群居昆虫社会性质的看法 通过展示，因为它们在基因上不同， 这些社会内部可能会发生尖锐的冲突，尽管他们经常 配合 此外，控制蜜蜂的群集仍然是 蜜蜂采蜜实际管理中尚未解决的问题 粮食作物的生产和授粉。 这项研究 令人惊讶的是，对蜂群的社会生物学研究很少， 对养蜂业和农业的实际影响。