Method for utilizing plastic straw to mark honeybees

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for utilizing a plastic straw to mark honeybees, comprising the following steps that a glass test tube is used for capturing honeybee individuals to be marked and the opening of the test tube is blocked; one end of the straw, which is provided with a vertical pipe opening, penetrates through a cotton ball or a paper ball to be inserted into the test tube; the middle section of the straw and one end with an inclined plane pipe opening are placed out of the test tube and one face with a rhombus-shaped hole is maintained to face right above; paper cards are inserted into annular notches of the most front end of the straw; the honeybees climb out through the straw; when the honeybee individuals climb to the suitable position, the two paper cards are used for limiting the honeybees between the two adjacent annular notches; a honeybee chest rear panel is rightly located at the position of the rhombus-shaped hole; a small fine rod is used for dipping suitable amount of pigment to be coated on the honeybee chest rear panel; and the paper cards are pulled out to enable the honeybees to climb out of the straw to naturally fly away from the inclined plane pipe opening, so as to finish the honeybee marking work. The materials used by the method are easy to obtain, low in price and convenient to carry and the method is simple to operate, does not cause physical or mechanical damages on the honeybees, and can rapidly and accurate mark the honeybees.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of honeybee behavior research methods, in particular to a method for marking honeybees with plastic straws. Background technique [0002] Honey bees are highly evolved social insects with complex social division of labor and behavior, and strong learning and memory abilities. They are internationally recognized model organisms for the study of social behavior and cognitive science. In the process of studying bee collecting behavior, dancing behavior, learning and memory, information transmission and making bee life table, marking a certain number of bee individuals is an important measure to carry out related research for the convenience of observation. Because honey bee adults are active and good at flying and have stinging behavior to external disturbers, it is difficult to quickly and accurately mark individual bees. The speed of freehand marking is slow, and it is easy to cause inaccurate marking positi...

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However, these two methods are difficult to control the degree of anesthesia or the degree of freezing, and it is easy to appear that either the bees wake up quickly and are difficult to mark; individual death

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