Avtor/Urednik		Kralj, Jasna; Božič, Janko
Naslov		Activity of attendants after licking and palpating the queen in honeybee (Apis mellifera carnica)
Tip		članek
Vir		Neth J Zool
Vol. in št.		Letnik 51, št. 4
Leto izdaje		2001
Obseg		str. 415-9
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		A worker-queen contact in the retinue of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) enables transfer of queen pheromones to workers. Behaviours of workers attending the queen and postcontact behaviours were recorded. The most commonly observed activities of workers in retinue were licking and antennating the queen. Those activities were interrupted with bouts of self-grooming, which was the most frequently observed activity of licking attendants. Immediately after leaving, the queen workers which had licked the queen, self-groomed longer and more frequently than workers which had antennated the queen. Licking post-retinue workers walked significantly faster and rested less frequently than palpating post-retinue workers, which suggest that licking attendants are most effective in the pheromone transfer accomplished by accidental encounters with other nestmates.
Deskriptorji		BEES BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL PHEROMONES