Pollination of ‘criollo’ avocados (<i>Persea americana)</i>and the behaviour of associated bees in subtropical Mexico

Can-Alonzo, Cesar; Quezada‐Euán, José Javier G.; Xiu-Ancona, Patricia; Moo-Valle, Humberto; Valdovinos-Nuñez, Gustavo R.; Medina-Peralta, Salvador

doi:10.1080/00218839.2005.11101138

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“…Based on species abundance on the flowers, foraging behaviour, and number of pollen grains on the insect's body zones that came in contact with the avocado stigma, they concluded that eight to 10 species of stingless bees were effective pollinators of avocado, together with the Mexican honey wasp. Can-Alonso et al (2005), working in commercial orchards, found that A. mellifera and Trigona nigra carried comparable amounts of avocado pollen grains on their bodies, but that this number was significantly less on Nannotrigona perilampoides. They too concluded that native stingless bees are potentially efficient pollinators of this crop.…”

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Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives

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-At present, numbers of both wild and managed bee colonies are declining rapidly, causing global concern for pollination services. Stingless bees play an important ecological role as pollinators of many wild plant species and seem good candidates for future alternatives in commercial pollination. This paper reviews the effectiveness of stingless bees as crop pollinators. Over the past six years the number of crops reported to be effectively pollinated by stingless bees has doubled, putting the total figure on 18 crops. Eleven stingless bee species across six genera have been found to forage effectively under enclosed conditions, indicating the potential of stingless bees as pollinators of greenhouse crops. The biological features that make stingless bees strong candidates for commercial pollination services are discussed, together with their present limitations. The effects of natural vegetation and wild bees on crop yield are reviewed, and make a strong case for habitat conservation.agriculture / alternative pollinators / food crop / greenhouse / Meliponini

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“…en aguacate, para la variedad Hass, se ha encontrado que un árbol puede llegar a producir hasta 2 millones de flores, más de mil veces la cantidad de frutos que puede soportar, pero se ha estimado que únicamente llegan a cuajado entre el 0,001% y 0,1% (Whiley et al, 1988;Dixon y sher, 2002;Can-Alonzo et al, 2005;Cossio-Vargas et al, 2007;scora et al, 2007).…”

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Avances en investigación sobre el comportamiento productivo del aguacate (Persea americana Mill.) bajo condiciones subtropicales.

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Romero

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“…The stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) are diverse group of eusocial, corbiculate bees, with around 500 species distributed in the tropical and southern subtropical regions of the world [42], with potential to be used as commercial pollinators [43,44,45,46]. In the Neotropics, the stingless bee Melipona eburnea is an important flower pollinator of Andean plants [47].…”

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Olfactory Learning in the Stingless Bee Melipona eburnea Friese (Apidae: Meliponini)

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Hernández

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Olfactory learning and floral scents are co-adaptive traits in the plant–pollinator relationship. However, how scent relates to cognition and learning in the diverse group of Neotropical stingless bees is largely unknown. Here we evaluated the ability of Melipona eburnea to be conditioned to scent using the proboscis extension reflex (PER) protocol. Stingless bees did not show PER while harnessed but were able to be PER conditioned to scent when free-to-move in a mini-cage (fmPER). We evaluated the effect of: 1) unconditioned stimulus (US) reward, and 2) previous scent–reward associations on olfactory learning performance. When using unscented-US, PER-responses were low on day 1, but using scented-US reward the olfactory PER-response increased on day 1. On day 2 PER performance greatly increased in bees that previously had experienced the same odor and reward combination, while bees that experienced a different odor on day 2 showed poor olfactory learning. Bees showed higher olfactory PER conditioning to guava than to mango odor. The effect of the unconditioned stimulus reward was not a significant factor in the model on day 2. This indicates that olfactory learning performance can increase via either taste receptors or accumulated experience with the same odor. Our results have application in agriculture and pollination ecology.

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Pollination of ‘criollo’ avocados (Persea americana)and the behaviour of associated bees in subtropical Mexico

Abstract: 2005) Pollination of 'criollo' avocados (Persea americana) and the behaviour of associated bees in subtropical Mexico, Journal

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives

Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives

Avances en investigación sobre el comportamiento productivo del aguacate (Persea americana Mill.) bajo condiciones subtropicales.

Olfactory Learning in the Stingless Bee Melipona eburnea Friese (Apidae: Meliponini)

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