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Citral in stingles bees: Isolation and functions in trail-laying and robbing
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Citral is identified as the probable key factor responsible for the successful robbing activities of L. limao workers and the role of exocrine products which are employed as allomones by robbing bees and ants is discussed.About:
This article is published in Journal of Insect Physiology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lestrimelitta limao & Robbing.read more
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Semiochemical parsimony in the Arthropoda.
TL;DR: The availability of a variety of pheromones and allomones has enabled arthropods to evolve an elegant semiochemical parsimony with which to exploit the biological milieu.
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Recruitment communication in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)
TL;DR: Meliponine recruitment communication is examined, focusing on evidence for contact-based, visual, olfactory, and acoustic communication and what these mechanisms can tell us about the evolution of recruitment communication in stingless bees.
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Foraging Behavior of Competing Africanized Honeybees and Stingless Bees
TL;DR: The combined advantages of the ability to communicate the distance and direction of a food source from the nest, large forager size, and large colony size provide Africanized honeybee colonies with a competitive ability superior to that of stingless bees at rich, compact resources.
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Social Insect Pheromones: Their Chemistry and Function
Murray S. Blum,John M. Brand +1 more
TL;DR: Alarm pheromones have been identified chiefly in three subfamilies of ants and their distribution appears to be chemosystematically significant.
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Chemical communication in insect communities: a guide to insect pheromones with special emphasis on social insects
Mahmoud Fadl Ali,E. David Morgan +1 more
TL;DR: The number and complexity of pheromones can expect to be much greater in social insects, a part of the subject which until now has received relatively less attention.
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Communication between the Workers of Stingless Bees
M. Lindauer,W. E. Kerr +1 more
TL;DR: Todas as especies de Meliponini ate agora examinadas, dispoe de meios de intercomunicafao, por meio dos quais as abelhas sem ocupacao na colmeia podem ser alarmadas, isto e, levadas a sair e procurar um determinado lugar.
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Identification of Iso-Amyl Acetate as an Active Component in the Sting Pheromone of the Honey Bee
TL;DR: The sting of the honey bee carries volatile substances which incite bees to aggression, and it was found that cotton balls containing stings were more frequently stung than control balls.
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Gefahrenalarmstoffe und Gefahrenalarmierung bei sozialen Hymenopteren
TL;DR: Bei allen Hymenopterenstaaten, die eine hohe soziale Organisation aufweisen, wurde eine Gefahrenalarmierung nachgewiesen, werden mit Ausnahme der Bienenkönigin auch von den weiblichen Geschlechtstieren produziert.
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2-Heptanone in the Mandibular Gland Secretion of the Honey-bee
D. A. Shearer,R. Boch +1 more
TL;DR: One of the components of the sting pheromone2 has been identified as isoamyl acetate which releases strong alarm behaviour in bees which can be observed when mandibular glands or crushed heads of worker bees are presented at the hive entrance.
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Mass spectrometry of terpenes i: monoterpene hydrocarbons
Ragnar Ryhage,Erik von Sydow +1 more