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APIDOLOGIE
卷 46, 期 1, 页码 61-70出版社
SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-014-0302-5
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forage availability; waggle dance; Apis mellifera; nectar; pollen
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- Nineveh Charitable Trust, UK
- Waitrose Ltd.
- Burt's Bees
- Body Shop Foundation
- Rowse Honey Ltd
To investigate the distances at which honey bee foragers collect nectar and pollen, we analysed 5,484 decoded waggle dances made to natural forage sites to determine monthly foraging distance for each forage type. Firstly, we found significantly fewer overall dances made for pollen (16.8 %) than for non-pollen, presumably nectar (83.2 %; P < 2.2 x 10(-23)). When we analysed distance against month and forage type, there was a significant interaction between the two factors, which demonstrates that in some months, one forage type is collected at farther distances, but this would reverse in other months. Overall, these data suggest that distance, as a proxy for forage availability, is not significantly and consistently driven by need for one type of forage over the other.
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