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trophallaxis: a standalone construct

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trophallaxis1 CONSTRUCTTrophallaxisCRAILSHEIM · FOOD FLOW

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Social-insect biology

Nestmates pass food mouth-to-mouth

Trophallaxis is the mutual exchange of liquid food between nestmates, mouth-to-mouth in honey bees, by which incoming nectar and glandular secretions are shared and spread through the colony. Crailsheim's 1998 review of trophallactic interactions in the adult honey bee shows it is not only how food is distributed but also a channel that carries nutritional information and chemical signals among workers, binding the colony into a shared physiology. The referent is the act and network of food transfer among nestmates, quantified by how fast and how widely a marked food load passes from bee to bee.[1]

Unit
The transfer of liquid food between nestmates
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured by the rate, frequency and reach of food transfer, often by tracking labelled or dyed food as it spreads through the colony

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References

  1. Crailsheim, K. (1998). Trophallactic interactions in the adult honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). Apidologie, 29(1–2), 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:19980106

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