TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kablau, Arne
A1  - Berg, Stefan
A1  - Rutschmann, Benjamin
A1  - Scheiner, Ricarda
T1  - Short-term hyperthermia at larval age reduces sucrose responsiveness of adult honeybees and can increase life span
T2  - Apidologie
N2  - Honeybees are very sensitive to their breeding temperature. Even slightly lower temperatures during larval development can significantly affect adult behavior. Several devices which are employed for killing the honeybee ectoparasite Varroa destructor rely on short-term hyperthermia in the honeybee hive. The device used here applies 43.7 °C for 2 h, which is highly effective in killing the mites. We study how short-term hyperthermia affects worker brood and behavior of emerging adult bees. Sucrose responsiveness was strongly reduced after treatment of larvae early or late of larval development. Hyperthermia significantly enhanced life span, particularly in bees receiving treated early in larval development. To ask whether increased life span correlated with foraging performance, we used radio frequency identification (RFID). Onset and offset of foraging behavior as well as foraging trip duration and lifetime foraging effort were unaffected by hyperthermia treatment as prepupa.
KW  - temperature
KW  - Varroa destructor
KW  - worker behavior
KW  - Apis mellifera
KW  - RFID
KW  - température
KW  - Varroa destructor
KW  - comportement des travailleurs
KW  - Apis mellifera
KW  - RFID
KW  - Temperatur
KW  - Varroa destructor
KW  - Bienenverhalten
KW  - Apis mellifera
KW  - RFID
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23246
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232462
SN  - 0044-8435
VL  - 51
ER  -