Role of Olfactory and Acoustic Information in the Communication of Food Location by Stingless Bees (Genus Melipona)

嗅觉和听觉信息在无刺蜂（Melipona 属）食物位置交流中的作用

• 批准号: 0316697
• 负责人: James Nieh
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0316697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Olfactory; Acoustic; Information; Communication

LAY ABSTRACTRole of olfactory and acoustic information in the communication of foodlocation by stingless bees (genus Melipona)James C. NiehNSF Award 0316697Successful foragers of highly social insects commonly communicate the locationof good food sources to other colony members. In honeybees, such locationcommunication can occur through the waggle dance, famous becausehoneybees encode the distance and direction to a resource in the waggle dance(referential communication). This degree of directional information is onlymatched by human language. Aside from honeybees, the tropical stingless beesare the only highly social bees, and both groups are closely related. Severalauthors have therefore made preliminary studies to see if stingless bees alsohave a similar ability to encode and communicate food location. Previously, theP.I. discovered that one species of stingless bee can communicate 3D foodlocation and may encode distance and height in sound pulses. Through thisgrant, the P.I. will determine, in detail, the role of odor and sound in thiscommunication system. He will also begin playback experiments designed to testwhether bees can use acoustic information to find a food source at specific 3Dlocation. This research will increase our understanding of sophisticated animalcommunication by exploring a new model of referential communication, thestingless bees.

在无刺蜜蜂（Melipona属）詹姆斯·C·尼恩斯夫（James C. Niehnsf）奖的食物待机交流中，将嗅觉和声学信息置于探测信息0316697SCOLCESCESSUCCESS -CORCECT FARGES的高度社交昆虫的觅食者通常会向其他殖民地成员传达良好的食物来源的位置。在Honeybees中，可以通过Waggle Dance发生这种位置通信，这是因为Honeybees将距离和方向编码到Waggle Dance中的资源（参考通信）中。这种定向信息仅由人类语言匹配。除了蜜蜂，热带无刺的蜜蜂是唯一的高度社交蜜蜂，并且两个群体都密切相关。因此，几位员工已经进行了初步研究，以查看无刺的蜜蜂是否也具有类似的编码和传达食物位置的能力。以前，thep.i。发现一种无刺的蜜蜂可以传达3D食品液，并可能编码声音脉冲中的距离和高度。通过这个Grant，P.I。将详细确定气味和声音在此通信系统中的作用。他还将开始旨在测试蜜蜂的播放实验，以便使用声学信息以特定的3DLocation找到食物来源。这项研究将通过探索一种新的参考沟通模型，无蜜蜂来提高我们对复杂动物通信的理解。