Pollen Analysis of Food Pots Stored by Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in a Restinga area

Pinto, Rafael Sousa; Albuquerque, Patrícia Maia Correia de; Rêgo, Márcia Maria Corrêa

doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v61i4.461-469

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“…In Brazil, studies on honey have shown that B. verticillata is the main basis of pollen for Apis mellifera, Melimpona subnitida, and other bee species. B. verticillata is sold as an ornament plant (Souza et al, 2015;de Novais and Absy, 2015;Pinto et al, 2014). Campos et al (2014) discovered that this plant species has a great tolerance for arsenic polluted land hence proposing that this plant can be useful in detoxifying land mass and areas affected by arsenic.…”

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A review on Borreria verticillata: A potential bionematicide, channeling its significant antimicrobial activity against root-knot nematodes

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2020

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Phytopesticides are human-friendly beside been easily accessible and bio-degradable, are therefore environmentally friendly compared to the synthetic pesticides which huge adverse effects on human, animals and the ecosystem. Plants are large reservoir of secondary metabolites largely untapped or under-tapped for use as pesticides. One problem associated with this is to identify plants which can be assessed and further exploited for this use. Borreria verticillata belongs to Rubiaceae , it is native to South Americas but gained popularity globally. It is known as a weed, showing resistance to many synthetic pesticides and can be grown on a wide range of soil types. B. verticillata is used traditionally against skin diseases such as eczema, infectious dermatitis and scabies . Its antimicrobial application is large and efficient as revealed by most authors. This article inclines to propose and offer current studies with information on the various application of this plant species against various microorganisms, thereby extending its use against plant parasitic nematodes which cause severe yield losses to numerous agricultural crops. Most search engines, journals and dissertation search engines i.e. Google scholar, pubmed, sciencedirect, scopus, web of science, springer, elsevier, like Open-thesis, OATD, ProQuest and EthOs were queried by employing titles such as B. verticillata , Borreria verticillata and biological activity of B. verticillata . The most synonymous name was queried too i.e. Spermacoce verticillata . This review suggests a main point about this resistant weed i.e. its significant antimicrobial activity. It further emphases the need exploits this useful effect against nematodes since they are microorganisms. Phytochemistry of the B. verticillata was gathered in this study and the compounds isolated from the plant i.e. terpenes, iridoids, flavonoids and alkaloids (29 compounds) further provide a basis for a significant antihelmintic effect. The review concludes on the need to extends its antimicrobial activity to sustainable agriculture. Since it is a very common plant in Nigeria, it is easily accessible to farmer protect their cultivations from plant-parasitic nematode attacks.

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A review on Borreria verticillata: A potential bionematicide, channeling its significant antimicrobial activity against root-knot nematodes

Izuogu

Bello

Bello³

2020

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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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The Contribution of Palynological Surveys to Stingless Bee Conservation: A Case Study with Melipona subnitida

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Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

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Pollen Analysis of Food Pots Stored by Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in a Restinga area

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

A review on Borreria verticillata: A potential bionematicide, channeling its significant antimicrobial activity against root-knot nematodes

A review on Borreria verticillata: A potential bionematicide, channeling its significant antimicrobial activity against root-knot nematodes

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

The Contribution of Palynological Surveys to Stingless Bee Conservation: A Case Study with Melipona subnitida

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