scholarly journals Odour-evoked responses to queen pheromone components and to plant odours using optical imaging in the antennal lobe of the honey bee drone Apis mellifera L.

2006 ◽  
Vol 209 (18) ◽  
pp. 3587-3598 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-C. Sandoz
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Optical Imaging ◽  
Honey Bee ◽  
Antennal Lobe ◽  
Queen Pheromone ◽  
Evoked Responses ◽  
Pheromone Components ◽  
Plant Odours

INTRA-NEST TRANSMISSION OF AROMATIC HONEY BEE QUEEN MANDIBULAR GLAND PHEROMONE COMPONENTS: MOVEMENT AS A UNIT

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 917-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Naumann ◽  
Mark L. Winston ◽  
Keith N. Slessor ◽  
Glenn D. Prestwich ◽  
Bachir Latli
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Mandibular Gland ◽  
Queen Pheromone ◽  
The Body ◽  
Decenoic Acid ◽  
Pheromone Components ◽  
Aromatic Components ◽  
Honey Bee Queen ◽  
Pheromone Complex ◽  
Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone

AbstractThe intra-nest transmission of two aromatic components of honey bee queen mandibular gland pheromone, 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxyphenylethanol (HVA) and methyl p-hydroxybenzoate (HOB), is quantitatively described. After being secreted onto the body surface of the queen, the greatest quantities of HVA and HOB are removed by workers in the queen’s retinue, especially those contacting the queen with their mouthparts. Other workers acquire pheromone components via direct contact with retinue bees or with other workers that have already acquired queen pheromone. HVA and HOB can also reach workers through queen or worker "footprints," although the relatively little material deposited onto the comb wax becomes less available with time, presumably because of diffusion into the wax. Pheromone material is removed from circulation by being internalized into workers, the queen, and the wax. Rates of HVA and HOB transfer between different entities within the nest are described in terms of pseudo first-order rate constants. The intra-nest transfer of these two components, both qualitatively and quantitatively, is similar to that described earlier for the most abundant queen mandibular gland pheromone component, 9-keto-2-(E)-decenoic acid (9-ODA; Naumann et al. 1991). Thus, the queen mandibular gland pheromone complex is transferred through the nest as a unit rather than as individual components moving at different rates.

scholarly journals Characterization of the olfactory system in Apis dorsata, an Asian honey bee

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhya Mogily ◽  
Meenakshi VijayKumar ◽  
Sunil Kumar Sethy ◽  
Joby Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Learning And Memory ◽  
Honey Bee ◽  
Olfactory System ◽  
Mushroom Body ◽  
Antennal Lobe ◽  
Equivalent Model ◽  
Memory Retention ◽  
Apis Dorsata ◽  
Lateral Protocerebrum

AbstractThe European honeybee, Apis mellifera is the most common insect model system for studying learning and memory. We establish that the olfactory system of Apis dorsata, an Asian species of honeybee as an equivalent model to Apis mellifera to study physiology underlying learning and memory. We created an Atlas of the antennal lobe and counted the number of glomeruli in the antennal lobe of Apis dorsata to be around 165 which is similar to the number in the other honey bee species Apis mellifera and Apis florea. Apis dorsata was found to have five antenno-cerebral tracts namely mACT, lACT and 3 mlACTS which appear identical to Apis mellifera. Intracellular recording showed that the antennal lobe interneurons exhibit temporally patterned odor-cell specific responses. The neuritis of Kenyon cells with cell bodies located in a neighborhood in calyx retain their relative neighborhoods in the peduncle and alpha lobe forming a columnar organization in the mushroom body. Alpha lobe and the calyx of the mushroom body were innervated by extrinsic neurons with cell bodies in the lateral protocerebrum. A set of GABA positive cells in the lateral protocerebrum send their neurites towards alpha-lobe. Apis dorsata was amenable to olfactory conditioning and showed good learning and memory retention at 24 hours. They were amenable to massed and spaced conditioning and could distinguish trained odor from an untrained novel odor.

scholarly journals The Behavioral Toxicity of Insect Growth Disruptors on Apis mellifera Queen Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza M. Litsey ◽  
Siwon Chung ◽  
Julia D. Fine
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Honey Bee ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Queen Pheromone ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Physiological Status ◽  
Insect Growth ◽  
Hormone Analog ◽  
Colony Performance ◽  
Honey Bee Queens

As social insects, honey bees (Apis mellifera) rely on the coordinated performance of various behaviors to ensure that the needs of the colony are met. One of the most critical of these behaviors is the feeding and care of egg laying honey bee queens by non-fecund female worker attendants. These behaviors are crucial to honey bee reproduction and are known to be elicited by the queen’s pheromone blend. The degree to which workers respond to this blend can vary depending on their physiological status, but little is known regarding the impacts of developmental exposure to agrochemicals on this behavior. This work investigated how exposing workers during larval development to chronic sublethal doses of insect growth disruptors affected their development time, weight, longevity, and queen pheromone responsiveness as adult worker honey bees. Exposure to the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen consistently shortened the duration of pupation, and pyriproxyfen and diflubenzuron inconsistently reduced the survivorship of adult bees. Finally, pyriproxyfen and methoxyfenozide treated bees were found to be less responsive to queen pheromone relative to other treatment groups. Here, we describe these results and discuss their possible physiological underpinnings as well as their potential impacts on honey bee reproduction and colony performance.

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