Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Z. Tierpsychol
Volume
40
Publisher
Verlag Paul Parey
Publication Date
1-1-1976
First Page
377
Last Page
389
Abstract
Studied two types of mate-orientation behavior in o o of the sweat bee, Lasioglossum rohweri: microterritoriality and patrolling. Observations were made in both the laboratory and the field. These o o behave uniquely for Hymenoptera in that 2-5 of them establish microterritories immediately around the same nest entrance. Some o o are exclusively patrollers, flying about flowers and nest sites. Rendezvous places (locations where animals are likely to find mates) in bees are: flowers, nesting sites, vegetative parts of plants, nest entrances, air, and nests. Territoriality in male bees may have arisen independently in 7 of the 9 families of bees.
Recommended Citation
Barrows, Edward M., "Mating Behavior in Halictine Bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): II. Microterritorial and Patrolling Behavior in of Lasioglossum robweri" (1976). Ba. Paper 59.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_ba/59