Hiromi Sasagawa, sasagawa@nias.affrc.go.jp, Foundation for Advancement of International Science (FAIS), 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.
Social behaviors in honey bees can serve as models for investigating recognition and communications among intra- and interspecies as well as those towards environmental conditions. Semiochemicals play crucial roles in recognition and pheromones do in communication. Individual recognition and communications among colony members would lead to wide variety of social behaviors. In Japan, there are two Apis species, domestic honey bee (Apis cerana japonica Rad.) and imported honey bee, Apis mellifera L. In this paper, differences in behavioral repertory between these two honey bees will be discussed in connection with differences in recognition and responses to semiochemicals.
Species 1: Hymenoptera Apidae
Apis cerana japonica (Japanese honey bee)
Species 2: Hymenoptera Apidae
Apis melliferaKeywords: semiochemical, defense system