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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 - 9:00 AM
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Honey bee communications and pollination tactics of Cymbidium floribundum
Hiromi Sasagawa, sasagawa@nias.affrc.go.jp, Foundation for Advancement of International Science; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, 586-9, Akatsuka Aza Ushigafuchi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, emi@nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp, Nagoya Univ, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Furo-cho, Chigusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, and Shigeru Matsuyama, honeybee@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp, Univ. of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences and Bioengineering, 1-1-1 Ten nou dai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
An oriental orchid, Cymbidium floribundum, has an remarkable pollination tactic by which orchid flowers attract the Japanese honey bee, Apis cerana japonica, without pollen nor nector. Orchid flowers do not attract the European honey bee, Apis mellifera, at all.
Species 1: Hymenoptera Apidae Apis cerana japonica (Japanese honey bee)
Species 2: Hymenoptera Apidae Apis mellifera (European honey bee)
Species 3: Orchidales Orchidaceae Cymbidium floribundum (Kinryouhen, Oriental orchid)
Keywords: semiochemicals, pollination
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