Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

Research Article

Effects of Long Distance Transportation on Honey Bee Physiology

Table 1

and values from analysis of variance (ANOVA) conducted for each trial and each parameter, with “ns” denoting nonsignificant (). JH titers were transformed (log (JH + 1)) before ANOVA. “Colony source” refers to the differences due to genetic background of source colonies, “transportation” refers to the difference between transported and stationary colonies, and interaction refers to the effect of two (genetics X transportation status). Workers in CA were 6-7 days old, in GA were 8 days old, and those in MI were either 7 or 17 days old.


Item	Trial	Effect	DF

JH titers in hemolymph	CA	Colony source	10, 186	5.55	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 186	1.70	ns
		Interaction	10, 186	1.77	ns
	GA	Colony source	11, 214	5.98	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 214	0.01	ns
		Interaction	11, 214	1.24	ns
	MI 7-day-old	Colony source	5, 106	2.48	0.04
		Transportation	1, 106	0.02	ns
		Interaction	5, 106	5.31	<0.01
	MI 17-day-old	Colony source	5, 99	2.54	0.03
		Transportation	1, 99	6.08	0.02
		Interaction	5, 99	1.82	ns

Volume of HPG acini	CA	Colony source	8, 162	6.65	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 162	62.65	<0.01
		Interaction	8, 162	1.84	ns
	GA	Colony source	3, 72	0.52	ns
		Transportation	1, 72	43.39	<0.01
		Interaction	3, 72	0.23	ns
	MI 7-day-old	Colony source	5, 108	8.03	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 108	35.44	<0.01
		Interaction	5, 108	5.93	<0.01
	MI 17-day-old	Colony source	5, 108	5.11	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 108	18.17	<0.01
		Interaction	5, 108	4.16	<0.01

Protein content in head	GA	Colony source	7, 144	17.06	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 144	12.96	<0.01
		Interaction	7, 144	1.89	ns
	MI 7-day-old	Colony source	4, 90	12.27	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 90	1.24	ns
		Interaction	4, 90	0.63	ns
	MI 17-day-old	Colony source	4, 90	1.00	ns
		Transportation	1, 90	6.55	<0.01
		Interaction	4, 90	2.91	<0.03

Protein content in thorax	GA	Colony source	7, 144	13.10	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 144	1.86	ns
		Interaction	7, 144	1.83	ns

Lipid content in abdomen	CA	Colony source	3, 72	2.44	ns
		Transportation	1, 72	0.02	ns
		Interaction	3, 72	4.60	<0.01
	GA	Colony source	3, 72	10.54	ns
		Transportation	1, 72	2.47	ns
		Interaction	3, 72	5.09	<0.01
	MI 7-day-old	Colony source	5, 108	4.84	<0.01
		Transportation	1, 108	2.09	ns
		Interaction	5, 108	1.54	ns
	MI 17-day-old	Colony source	5, 108	1.42	ns
		Transportation	1, 108	2.53	ns
		Interaction	5, 108	1.27	ns