Timing of colony phenology and foraging activity in honeybees (C02)

• Subject Area: Sensory and Behavioural Biology
• Term: from 2013 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 208233609

Project C2 investigates the role of daily and seasonal timing for forager and colony performance in social honey bees and bumble bees. It will study time-place and interval time-place learning in field and lab experiments, evaluate the relative importance of temperature, photoperiod, and resource pulses as triggers of seasonal life history events in climate chamber experiments, address the fitness losses and gains of desynchronised colony phenology in relation to floral resource phenology and interactions with natural enemies, and evaluate effects of larval nutrition on nurse-forager transitions in honey bees.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1047: Insect Timing: Mechanisms, Plasticity and Interactions
• Applicant Institution: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Stephan Härtel; Professor Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter