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Apis laboriosa
Periodic Mass Flights (PMF) of A. laboriosa
1 nest
60_lapmf, 1nest
1.0 MB
61_lapmf, 1nest
877 KB
3 nests
59_lapmf, 3nts
954 KB
66_lapmf, 3nts
997 KB
Temperature correlated Dorso -Ventral Abdomen Flipping (DVAF), (AF) of Apis laboriosa
At 10 oC about 50% of worker
bees perform DVAM
88_laaf50, 1
1 MB
89_laaf50, 2
920 KB
At 15 oC
about 15% of worker bees perform DVAM
90_laaf15
900 KB
Hornet hunting Apis laboriosa worker bees
near the nest
Dorso -ventral Defence Body Twisting (DBT)
in A. laboriosa worker bees
09_ladbt11,02
11_ladbt11,01
Circular Defence Waves (DW) A. laboriosa workers in the curtain covering the nests
46_lawavs
hornet
45_lawavs
2nests 13,25
47_lawavs
3nests 11,41
Abdominen Flipping (AF) of Apis dorsata workers
At 19 oC about
12.5% of workers perform abdomen flipping
Movie 8. 15_doaf 12,5
At 24 oC about 2.5% of workers perform abdomen
flipping
12_doaf 2,5
Circular Defence Waves (DW) of DBT in A.dorsata workers in the curtain covering the nest
Movie
10. avi (3.0MB) 21_dowav15,37
Dorso-ventral Defence Body Twisting (DBT) if A. dorsata
worker bees in a cage
Movie
11. 22_doafcage
Movie
12. 24_doafcage2
Circular Dfence Waves (DW) of A. d. breviligula provoked by dummy
hornet
Movie BrDefWavs
(2.65 MB)
Defence body twisting (DBT)
Movie
BrDefHornet (2.41 MB)
Tropilaelaps clareae
Mating of Tropilaelaps clareae
The male moves
from female dorsum on the side and then slipps to her venter.
01_trcopmove 1.3 Mb
Female and male in venter-to-venter position
03_trcopevnt
850 KB
The sperm is introduced by means of male
spermatodactyl into female gonopore located behind
coxa III.
The male rubbs the anterior
part of the female epigynial plate with his leg II
. He can repeat the movements
more than 500 times
04_trcoprub 930
KB
05_trcoprub 1.2
MB