1998 Cilt 14 Sayı 1

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    Foraging ecology of the cyprus honey bee (Apis melliferil cypriil) and its implications for agriculture
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 1998) Çakmak, İbrahim; Wells, Harrington; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Ziraat Fakültesi/Zootekni Bölümü.; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Ziraat Fakültesi/Biyoloji Bölümü.
    The forager responses of Apis mellifera cypria were tested using artificial flower patches consisting of blue, white, and yellow flowers. A.m. cypria foragers frequentin? blue and white flowers responded to quality and quantity differences between blue and white flowers by Javaring the flower color which offered the higher molar or greater quantity reward. Cyprııs bees javaring yellow flowers responded when the smaller reward quantity was presented in yellow flowers by increasing visitation to the blue and white color morphs. The results presented here for the Cyprus honey bee when compared to work we have published on Italian and Caucasian bees suggest that the wasp predation pressure is responsible for evolution of differences in foraging behavior.