Floral resources used by <i>Tetragonisca angustula</i> (Latreille 1811) in areas under the influence of the breach of the Fundão Dam in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Vieira, Kamilla Ingred Castelan; Luz, Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da; Fidalgo, Adriana de Oliveira; Moreira, Nayara Couto; Resende, Helder Canto

doi:10.1080/00173134.2020.1721557

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“…Beside the most represented in the present study, families Amaranthaceae ( Alternanthera type) and Urticaceae ( Cecropia type) are also highlighted in studies with T. angustula , not only in the north region of Brazil (Novais et al 2015), but also in other regions where the bee is found (Vieira et al 2020). For the northeast region, Novais et al (2014, 2015) reports low frequencies both for the Amaranthaceae and for Urticaceae.…”

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“…Hence, reconnaissance of plant species used for pollen and nectar by bees helps the characterization of food resources (Carvalho et al 2001; Luz et al 2010). Combining observations and pollen analyses can provide more precise information on connectance (links) in insect-plant interaction networks, previously not assessed with field observations only (Bosch et al 2009; Olesen et al 2010; Vianna et al 2014), and thus expanding our knowledge on specialist and generalist processes in different bee species (Ferreira et al 2019; Vieira et al 2020).…”

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Botanical origin and seasonal variation in pollen collected by Tetragonisca weyrauchi (Apidae: Meliponini) in an urban area of Rio Branco, State of Acre, Brazil

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The botanical origin and seasonal variation of pollen collected by Tetragonisca weyrauchi were studied by means of palynology (pollen identification). The study was carried out between August 2016 and July 2017 with a hive introduced in a house garden in an urban area (09 56 0 38.7 00 S; 67 52 0 42.9 00 W) near the campus of the Federal University of Acre (UFAC). In total, we identified 87 pollen types from 31 botanical families, with the most representative ones being: Alismataceae, Amaranthaceae, Arecaceae, Boraginaceae, Cyperaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae and Urticaceae, all displaying percentages above 10%. The pollen types Alternanthera (Amaranthaceae), Cecropia (Urticaceae) and Cordia sellowiana (Boraginaceae) obtained relative abundances above 90% and are therefore considered events of temporary specialization. The lowest diversity and evenness values were found for July (H 0 ¼ 0.127; J 0 ¼ 0.071) and August (H 0 ¼ 0.070; J 0 ¼ 0.043), and the highest values for October (H 0 ¼ 2.025; J 0 ¼ 0.715) and April (H 0 ¼ 1.941; J 0 ¼ 0.611), thus not suggesting relationships with the rainy (November-April) or dry (May-October) periods. Furthermore, there was no preference by the bees for morphological characteristics of the pollen such as size, exine texture or aperture number. However, the most representative grains are among the small and medium size, reinforcing the hypothesis that this bee species prefers small flowers available in dense inflorescences.

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Botanical origin and seasonal variation in pollen collected by Tetragonisca weyrauchi (Apidae: Meliponini) in an urban area of Rio Branco, State of Acre, Brazil

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“…Vieira et al., [26] in a study also carried out in Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais, identified the presence of 78 pollen species in samples of honey and fermented pollen (“saburá”) stored in hives. In this study, species of 37 botanical families, distributed in 64 genera, were defined.…”

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“…and Vernonia Schreb. [26] The study carried out to identify the pollen spectrum of honey samples collected in the Lower Amazon region of the State of Pará, Brazil, identified different types of pollen grains. The most representative botanical families found in the pollen spectrum of honey samples were Fabaceae, Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Myrtaceae and Rubiaceae, among others.…”

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Floral Visitation, Phytochemical and Biological Activities of Bioproducts from Tetragonisca angustula (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): A Review

Silva Macêdo,

de Sousa Silveira,

da Silva Sousa

et al. 2023

Chemistry & Biodiversity

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Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille, 1811) is an indigenous neotropical stingless bee, popularly known as “Jataí”, with a wide distribution in the Brazilian territory. T. angustula produces other derivatives such as propolis, geopropolis, fermented (saburá pollen), cerumen and resins, which are important in folk medicine. In this review, the objective was to gather research on the main plant species visited by T. angustula, as well as studies that verified the chemical composition and biological properties of T. angustula bioproducts. The bibliographic review was performed by searching the Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and PubMed databases for publications from 2003 to February 2023. We found 78 studies that analyzed the interactions between T. angustula and floral species, with species from the botanical families Fabaceae, Asteraceae, Malvaceae, Bignoniaceae, Solanaceae, Myrtaceae and Lamiaceae being the most reported as the main food sources for this species. The presence of compounds belonging to the class of flavonoids, phenolic acids, terpenoids and alkaloids has been identified by studying the chemical composition of honey, propolis, geopropolis and fermented pollen (saburá) in 21 studies. The data collected in the literature emphasize that these T. angustula products have remarkable biological properties, especially their antibacterial and antioxidant activities.

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“…Pollen analysis in honey is a way to carry out searches of floral sources used by bees in the search for food resources. The pollen present in this bee product is a natural marker that can indicate which flowers are parts of their diet (Vieira et al 2020). The honey bee (Apis mellifera) uses plant pollen as an important nutritional source for amino acids, fats, minerals, proteins, starch, sterol and vitamins; where the nutritional quality of pollen pellets is dependent on the botanical origin of the pollen (Hornby et al 2022).…”

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Pollen Characterization of Polyfloral Honeys from Laghouat Region (Algeria)

2022

IJAB

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Honey is naturally produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants. It is widely consumed as a health food product all over the world. Melissopalynology plays an important role in ascertaining the botanical and geographical origins of honey by studying the pollen contained in the honey. The pollen content of 19 honey samples of Apis mellifera L. from the Laghouat region of Algeria was analyzed. 100 pollen types belong to 49 families were identified, of which the most diverse were Asteraceae (12 pollen types), Fabaceae (9), Apiaceae, Boraginaceae and Lamiaceae (5 pollen types each). Asteraceae and Fabaceae were present in all the samples, while, Apiaceae Nitrariaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Brassicaceae, and Oleaceae were identified in more than 84% of analysed honey samples. The number of pollen types identified per sample ranged between 13 and 27 (mean of 19.1). All honey samples were classified as a polyfloral honey. The best represented secondary pollen types were Peganum harmala, Centaurea sp., Trifolium sp., Eucalyptus sp., Euphorbia sp., Olea europaea, Echium sp., Onopordum arenarium, Lotus type and Cistus sp. For the quantitative analysis, the pollen content of the studied honey samples ranged from medium (class II, 57.9% of the samples) to high (class III, 42.1 % of the samples), where the pollen density ranged from 23 400 to 351 250 in 10 g of honey, with an average of 108 002 grains /10 g.

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Floral resources used by Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille 1811) in areas under the influence of the breach of the Fundão Dam in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Botanical origin and seasonal variation in pollen collected by Tetragonisca weyrauchi (Apidae: Meliponini) in an urban area of Rio Branco, State of Acre, Brazil

Botanical origin and seasonal variation in pollen collected by Tetragonisca weyrauchi (Apidae: Meliponini) in an urban area of Rio Branco, State of Acre, Brazil

Floral Visitation, Phytochemical and Biological Activities of Bioproducts from Tetragonisca angustula (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): A Review

Pollen Characterization of Polyfloral Honeys from Laghouat Region (Algeria)

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