Bees grazing behavior in Combretum leprosum Mart.
The flora of the Caatinga is an irreplaceable resource for the entomofauna present in this biome, with mofumbo (Combretum leprosum Mart.) being one of the most present plant species. This work, therefore, aimed to identify species of bees that visit the mofumbo And their respective grazing behavior...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Grupo Verde de Agroecologia e Abelhas (GVAA) |
| Repositorio: | Acta Apicola Brasilica |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.gvaa.com.br:article/4826 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.gvaa.com.br/revista/index.php/APB/article/view/4826 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Bee Pasture Apiflora Caatinga Apis mellifera Pasto Apícola |
| Resumo: | The flora of the Caatinga is an irreplaceable resource for the entomofauna present in this biome, with mofumbo (Combretum leprosum Mart.) being one of the most present plant species. This work, therefore, aimed to identify species of bees that visit the mofumbo And their respective grazing behaviors. he study was conducted in May 2016, in the city of Alexandria, Rio Grande do Norte. The data were collected during eight non-consecutive days between the hours of 7:10 and 17:20 in the first ten minutes of each hour, observing the frequency and type of floral resource collected. The results showed that the bee Apis mellifera was the only floral visitor of C. leprosum, presenting forage behavior of nectar or pollen during all the observed hours, thus evidencing that mofumbo is an important feeding species for Apis mellifera bees in the Brazilian semiarid. |
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