[PDF] Top 20 Defensive repertoire of the stingless bee Melipona flavolineata Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

... Despite the loss of the sting apparatus, Meliponini (stingless) bees have not lost their ability to defend ...Several defensive strategies have been described for the group, ... See full document

... one of the most important pollinators of native plants and crops, in a way that the plants are benefited with the gene flow and the bees acquire food and substrate for ...study: ... See full document

... Honey Bee Pests, Predators and Diseases ...effect of plants on leaf-cutting ants and their symbiotic ...(Hymenoptera: Apidae) e Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera: ...Catalogue ... See full document

... within the municipalities of Lontra and Januária, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern ...collected the nests to study their architecture in detail. In the present paper, we describe ... See full document

... is the most common leg gland, that is present in all social Hymenoptera (bees: Arnhart, 1923; Cruz Landim & Staurengo, 1965; bumblebees: Pouvreau, 1991; wasps: Billen, 1986; ants: Billen, ...Initially, ... See full document

... in the fat body of ...catalyzes the synthesis of methylfarnesoate from farnesoic acid in the biosynthetic pathway of juvenile hormone in the corpora ...with the ... See full document

... - The objective of the present research is to characterize the phytotoxic activity of geopropolis from the Jandaira bee (Melipona subnitida Ducke) in the ... See full document

... 6 IMAI em seus trabalhos postulou a Teoria da Interação Mínima (TIM) que prevê a ocorrência de modificações nos cariótipos das espécies de Hymenoptera e outros organismos no sentido de minimizar as interações ... See full document

... For the electroantennogram, hexane solution (10 ml) was impregnated onto a strip of filter paper, 15 x ...over the antenna, the pipette tip containing the strip of filter paper ... See full document

... WEAVER & WEAVER (1981) fizeram um extenso documentário sobre a criação dessa abelha. Segundo eles, o Bispo Diego DeLanda, ao chegar ao Yucatan, em 1549, sete anos após a conquista es[r] ... See full document

... (2004). Stingless bees and mass flowering trees in the canopy of Atlantic Forest: a tight ...(Hymenoptera, Apidae, ...in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and ...(1932). ... See full document

... O clado sp2, formado pela amostra proveniente de São Luís, também apresentou um haplótipo exclusivo e divergente dos demais clados por muitos passos mutacionais. A grande divergência entre a seqüência desta localidade ... See full document

... determining the onset, permanence and termination of dia- pause in stingless bees is almost ...could the population in the nest, especially nurse workers and the queen, foresee ... See full document

... Muitas espécies de meliponíneos são específicas de suas regiões de ocorrência. Mesmo sendo adaptadas às condições locais de clima e flora, estão sujeitas às modificações do ambiente externo, influenciando diretamente a ... See full document

... aspects of the landscape ecology are affected, as the reduction of dispersion and potential colonization of plant species (Lovejoy et ...fragmentation of the landscape may ... See full document

... in the Atlantic forest; however, new species continue to be described ...orchid bee species inhabit this area, and 31 (approximately 50%) of these species were found in our study in a relatively ... See full document

... gate the within and between population genetic variability and between population genetic differentiation of the Bra- zilian stingless bee uruçu amarela (nominally Melipona ... See full document

... to the pollination services, Melipona provides products and by-products with high economic value, such as: honey, pollen, and ...However, the importance of these bees goes far beyond ... See full document

... Opening of hind tibial organ occupying over one-half of tibial length and extending to lower margin of tibia; outer fringe bordering opening distinctly longer than inner ...surface of hind ... See full document

... on the occurrence of fi lamentous fungi found on the surface of the bee’s body from the specie Melipona subnitida Ducke that inhabits rocky places on the semi-arid ... See full document