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Sound recordings of Apis cerana japonica colonies over 24 h reveal unique daily hissing patterns
- Source :
- Apidologie, Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 2019, 50 (2), pp.204-214. ⟨10.1007/s13592-018-0631-x⟩, SC30201905100010, NARO成果DBd, 出版社版PDFのためアーカイブ不可
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- International audience; AbstractThe simultaneous wing movement by multiple worker bees in a colony produces a hissing sound, which is a novel acoustic and vibrational signal of the honey bees. Hissing of honey bees is thought to be a response to direct, threatening stimuli. However, we discovered Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana japonica) can hiss even without obvious disturbances in previous study. In this study, to understand the temporal characteristics of honey bee hissing, we conducted 24-h sound recordings over 7 months in 2015 and investigated when A. cerana japonica hissed every day. Additionally, we also investigated the relationship of hissing onset and offset times with sunrise and sunset times, and environmental factors. We found that honey bees hiss daily during daytime and most frequently at dawn, with hissing onset/offset occurring mostly within 30 min of sunrise/sunset time. Hissing onset and offset were significantly related to sunrise and sunset times, respectively, and also to solar radiation intensity. The findings reveal that A. cerana japonica hissing has unique temporal patterns, and also shed a new light on vibrational collective behavior in honey bees.
- Subjects :
- honey bees
0106 biological sciences
geography
Apis cerana japonica
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
shimmering
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Zoology
hissing
Honey bee
Sunset
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Japonica
Worker bee
010602 entomology
Honey Bees
acoustic/vibrational behavior
Insect Science
Sunrise
Apis cerana
Sound (geography)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 12979678 and 00448435
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Apidologie
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....40f43e9996d306268ab544383d787347