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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 212, 期 7, 页码 1032-1035出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.022582
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Apis mellifera; behaviour; communication
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Although it has clearly been demonstrated in previous studies that honeybees inspect their worker brood in a non-random fashion, it is still unclear which signals and cues worker bees use to monitor the nutritional state of their brood. Here we show that worker bees can recognize and quantify the larval food present in a brood cell olfactorily and identify potential mechanical signals produced by the brood. There is no evidence for additional chemical hunger signals produced by the larvae. However, the pattern of movement of larvae within their cells changes with their nutritional state and might provide additional information to nurse bees.
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