Age-dependent hypopharyngeal gland size and protein content of stingless bee workers, Tetragonula pagdeni DOI Creative Commons
Lars Straub, Tanatip Sittisorn, Jinatchaya Butdee

et al.

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(8), P. e0308950 - e0308950

Published: Aug. 16, 2024

Eusocial insects, such as stingless bees (Meliponini), depend on division of labour, overlapping generations, and collaborative brood care to ensure the functionality success their colony. Female workers transition through a range age-specific tasks during lifespan (i.e., age-polyethism) play central role in These (e.g., or foraging) often closely coincide with key physiological changes necessary optimal performance. However, our understanding how nutrition, age, polyethism may affect development traits remains limited. Here we show that pollen consumption age-polyethism govern hypopharyngeal gland (HPG) acini size protein content Tetragonula pagdeni . By conducting controlled laboratory experiment monitored effect worker bee survival well assessed diet age affected HPG width content. Further, sampled nurses foragers from field colonies measure width. We found enhanced led increased were expected largest nurse bees. Our findings highlight beneficial effects an adequate for health reveal is factor governing As HPGs are imperative care—an essential component eusociality—the data provide foundation future studies investigate impact potential environmental stressors critical trait which serve proxy understand at colony level.

Language: Английский

Variation in the pollen diet of managed bee species across European agroecosystems DOI Creative Commons
Clément Tourbez, Antoine Gekière,

Irene Bottero

et al.

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 383, P. 109518 - 109518

Published: Feb. 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Buzzing Guardians: Protecting Pollinators in Agricultural Landscapes DOI Creative Commons

Hunasikote Shamappa Venu,

Amala Udayakumar,

A. N. Shylesha

et al.

Sociobiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 71(4), P. e11105 - e11105

Published: Nov. 25, 2024

In agriculture crop ecosystem, pollination is the foremost fundamental activity performed by fascinating creatures like bees, butterflies, hoverflies, birds and bats that ensures reproductive success in angiosperms. Currently, most of pollinators are appearing red data book as their population abundance depleting ecosystem. Their extinction was driven threats habitat loss, climate change, urbanization, use chemical pesticides, pest diseases. Decline pollinator may pose a considerable decrease global food production productivity. Effective efficient conservation strategies key elements to mitigate faced promotion resilience. Here we explored wide range strategies, which restores following sustainable agricultural practices, some policy interventions. Public awareness collaborative efforts among governments, NGOs, private sector crucial for successful implementation adaptation these strategies. By acclimatizing an integrated, convincing approach conservation, can assure predict sustainability productivity eventually supports biodiversity security.

Language: Английский

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Age-dependent hypopharyngeal gland size and protein content of stingless bee workers, Tetragonula pagdeni DOI Creative Commons
Lars Straub, Tanatip Sittisorn, Jinatchaya Butdee

et al.

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(8), P. e0308950 - e0308950

Published: Aug. 16, 2024

Eusocial insects, such as stingless bees (Meliponini), depend on division of labour, overlapping generations, and collaborative brood care to ensure the functionality success their colony. Female workers transition through a range age-specific tasks during lifespan (i.e., age-polyethism) play central role in These (e.g., or foraging) often closely coincide with key physiological changes necessary optimal performance. However, our understanding how nutrition, age, polyethism may affect development traits remains limited. Here we show that pollen consumption age-polyethism govern hypopharyngeal gland (HPG) acini size protein content Tetragonula pagdeni . By conducting controlled laboratory experiment monitored effect worker bee survival well assessed diet age affected HPG width content. Further, sampled nurses foragers from field colonies measure width. We found enhanced led increased were expected largest nurse bees. Our findings highlight beneficial effects an adequate for health reveal is factor governing As HPGs are imperative care—an essential component eusociality—the data provide foundation future studies investigate impact potential environmental stressors critical trait which serve proxy understand at colony level.

Language: Английский

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