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a landscape analysis to understand orientation of honey bee (hymenoptera: apidae) drones in puerto rico.honey bees [apis mellifera l. (apidae, hymenoptera)] show spatial learning behavior or orientation, in which animals make use of structured home ranges for their daily activities. worker (female) orientation has been studied more extensively than drone (male) orientation. given the extensive and large flight range of drones as part of their reproductive biology, the study of drone orientation may provide new insight on landscape features important for orientation. we report the return rate and o ...201526314058
landscape analysis of drone congregation areas of the honey bee, apis mellifera.male honey bees fly and gather at drone congregation areas (dcas), where drones and queens mate in flight. dcas occur in places with presumably characteristic features. using previously described landscape characteristics and observations on flight direction of drones in nearby apiaries, 36 candidate locations were chosen across the main island of puerto rico. at these locations, the presence or absence of dcas was tested by lifting a helium balloon equipped with queen-sex-pheromone-impregnated ...201223451901
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