caa a22 4500 397546475 CHVBK 20180308164739.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/aesa/89.2.243 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/aesa/89.2.243 Subtropical Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Swarming Dynamics and Africanization Rates in Northeastern Mexico and Southern Texas [Elektronische Daten] [W. L. Rubink, P. Luévano-Martinez, E. A. Sugden, W. T. Wilson, A. M. Collins] Honey Bee, Apis mellifera L., swarming dynamics and Africanization rates were monitored over a 5-yr period from 1988 to 1993 in the northeast Mexican State of Tamaulipas and in the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas before, during, and after the arrival of the neotropical African honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata Ruttner, to these areas. The study reports results obtained from 95,586 site-days of monitoring activities in northeastern Mexico (63 sites on a 200 km long east-west transect), and 68,428 site-days in southern Texas (36 sites on a 120 km long, east-west transect). Africanized honey bee capture rates were higher than European honey bee rates for gulf coastal areas in Mexico where both bee types also showed higher capture rates in agricultural lowlands versus montane areas. In the Texas location, European honey bee capture rates were slightly higher near the gulf coast, but otherwise swarm capture rates were similar across the transect for both Africanized honey bee and European honey bee. Pre-Africanization, European honey bee swarm capture rates were found to vary widely from year to year at each location, ranging from 0.138 to 0.446 swarms/site-month in Mexico and from 0.190 to 0.555 swarms/site-month in Texas. Post-Africanization capture rates were not appreciably different from pre-Africanization rates, ranging from 0.491 to 0.519 swarms/site-month in Mexico and 0.195 to 0.648 swarms/site-month in Texas. Africanization proceeded more quickly in northeastern Mexico where it reached 98% within 2.5 yr after the detection of the 1st Africanized honey bee. In southern Texas Africanization rates reached only 69% during an equivalent time frame. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Ecology and Population Biology nationallicence Africanized nationallicence European nationallicence Apis mellifera nationallicence swarming nationallicence neotropical nationallicence Rubink W. L. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596. aut Luévano-Martinez P. Secretaría de Fomento Agropecuario, 19 Gutierrez de Lara Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México. aut Sugden E. A. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596. aut Wilson W. T. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596. aut Collins A. M. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596. aut Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/2(1996-03-01), 243-251 0013-8746 89:2<243 1996 89 aesa https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.2.243 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.2.243 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rubink W. L. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luévano-Martinez P. Secretaría de Fomento Agropecuario, 19 Gutierrez de Lara Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sugden E. A. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilson W. T. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Collins A. M. Honey Bee Research Unit, Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. Highway 83, Weslaco, TX 78596 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/2(1996-03-01), 243-251 0013-8746 89:2<243 1996 89 aesa Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford