Use Of Honey-Sac Load and Dance Characteristics of Worker Honeybees to Determine Their Sugar Preferences
作者:
WallerGordon D.,
BachmanWalter W.,
期刊:
Journal of Apicultural Research
(Taylor Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 1
页码: 23-27
ISSN:0021-8839
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1080/00218839.1981.11100467
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
SummaryFrequency of dancing by returning honeybees (Apis mellifera) was shown to be positively correlated with concentration of sugar solution they had collected. Also, sucrose resulted in more dances than fructose, which in turn led to more dances than glucose.Amounts of these three sugars collected, when offered alone and in various combinations, showed sucrose to be the most acceptable sugar and glucose to be generally the least acceptable. However, at concentrations of 40% and 50% bees collected larger loads of glucose than of fructose. Mixtures of equal parts sucrose, glucose and fructose were collected in loads not significantly different in volume from other mixtures of these sugars.
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