Pollen Spectrum of Honey from the Bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (1910) in Restinga in Maranhão State

Diniz, Maira Rodrigues; Silva, Bianca Guimarães; Carreira, Léa Maria Medeiros; Jr., Eduardo Bezerra de Almeida; Rêgo, Márcia Maria Corrêa

doi:10.1590/2179-8087-floram-2020-0068

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“…Even though we have identified 11 different pollen morphotypes in brood cells of M. braziliensis, the nine least abundant of them constituted merely 1.57% of the total examined. These likely were involuntarily accumulated by females while drinking nectar or picked up as pollen secondarily deposited by other flower visitors, rather than being actively collected to nourish the larvae (see Diniz et al 2021). Since roughly 98.5% of the observed grains belong to only two pollen morphotypes (Polygalaceae sp.…”

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Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

Ferrari¹,

Buschini²,

Diniz³

et al. 2022

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Mourecotelles Toro & Cabezas (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) currently includes only nine valid species of cellophane bees found mostly in relatively-dry regions of western South America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador). In this paper, we describe and illustrate a new species of the genus – M. braziliensis Ferrari & Melo, sp. nov. – based on individuals of both sexes captured through trap-nesting in an environmental protection area (Araucárias Municipal Natural Park) and in flowers in different localities in southern Brazil. In total, we obtained 16 nests of M. braziliensis, each consisting of two to eleven brood cells arranged horizontally and lined with a cellophane-like substance. Of the 57 adult bees that emerged, 41 were male (mean weight 46.5 mg) and 16 were female (mean weight 58.9 mg), resulting in biased sex and investment ratios of 2.56:1 and 2.02:1, respectively. Both the numbers of provisioned cells and mortality rate were higher for trap nests with the narrowest bore diameter, although the differences in relation to other trap nests were not statistically significant. Pollen of nine different plant families were found in brood cells of M. braziliensis, but the species showed a clear preference for Fabaceae and Polygalaceae. Indeed, some of the specimens were collected while foraging in flowers of an unidentified species of Monnina Ruiz & Pav. (Polygalaceae) growing in swampy areas. The evolutionary and biogeographical implications of our discovery are briefly discussed.

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Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

Ferrari¹,

Buschini²,

Diniz³

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“…As abelhas ao visitarem as flores coletam recursos importantes para a sua alimentação e também relacionados a reprodução. Estes insetos, buscam nas flores produtos essenciais ao desenvolvimento de suas atividades biológicas (alimentação, subsistência dos ninhos), como néctar, pólen e água (DINIZ et al, 2021).…”

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Tópicos em Agroecologia, Volume 4

José Passos Rangel,

Candido G. Berilli,

de Fátima M. de Oliveira

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“…subnitida (popularly known as Jandaíra), is a typical bee of the Brazilian Tropical Dry-Forest (Zanela, 2000), and is highly adapted to the high annual temperatures and the short and irregular rainy season characteristic of this semiarid region (Maia-Silva et al, 2015). However, it can also be found on the coast of Maranhão in the Restinga Biome, an environment in which it has been extensively investigated for food resources, foraging behaviors, and population genetics (Pinto et al, 2014;Silva et al, 2014;Barbosa et al, 2019;Pinto et al, 2020;Diniz et al, 2021).…”

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Temporal Memory in Foraging of the Stingless Bee Melipona subnitida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

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Bees feed on nectar and pollen, however these resources are often available to floral visitors during restricted temporal windows. The presence of temporal memory is an advantage, as foragers can save energy by scheduling their flight activity to coincide with peaks of nectar secretion in the flowers or at times of higher sugar concentration in the nectar. Thus, the objectives of this study were (i) to investigate whether Melipona subnitida has temporal memory, and evaluate whether it becomes more accurate over the days, and (ii) to determine whether the behavior of anticipating the offered resource presents intra-individual consistency in the behavior of foragers. The visitation of the bees was high before and during the opening interval of the food resource, but rare after the closing, suggesting that M. subnitida has the ability to memorize the time of availability of the resource, increasing the accuracy over the days, with bees anticipating their visits in relation to the time they discovered the resource, and the opening time of the resource. There was individual consistency in the behavior of food-anticipatory activity, with the presence of bees that consistently anticipated in relation to the opening time of the resource (inspectors) and bees that consistently did not anticipate (reactivated forager) . By anticipating the search for a resource, foragers allow the group to exploit it effectively, as they exploit it in the first hours of its opening, and foragers that never anticipate avoid unnecessary risks of predation and energy expenditure.

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Pollen Spectrum of Honey from the Bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (1910) in Restinga in Maranhão State

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

Tópicos em Agroecologia, Volume 4

Temporal Memory in Foraging of the Stingless Bee Melipona subnitida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

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Pollen Spectrum of Honey from the Bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (1910) in Restinga in Maranhão State

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﻿Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

﻿Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

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Temporal Memory in Foraging of the Stingless Bee Melipona subnitida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

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Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus

Discovery of Mourecotelles (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Colletinae) in Brazil: nesting biology and pollen preferences of a remarkable new species of the genus