The Flight Physiology of Reproductives of Africanized, European, and Hybrid Honeybees (Apis mellifera)

摘要: Abstract Neotropical African honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata), in the process of spreading throughout tropical and subtropical regions Americas, hybridize with mostly replace European (primarily Apis ligustica). To help understand this process, we studied effect lineage (African, European, or hybrid) on flight physiology honeybee reproductives. Flight metabolic rates were higher queens drones than hybrid bees, as has been previously found for foraging workers. These differences associated thorax/body mass ratios thorax‐specific bees. Queens reared common colonies, so these morphological are likely to be genetic origin. had wing beat frequencies thorax temperatures Hybrids intermediate many parameters, but queen mass‐sp...