The role of Mimosa L. (Fabaceae) on pollen provision of Melipona asilvai Moure 1971 in a Caatinga area from Brazil

Silva, Ana Paula Conceição; Alves, Rogério Marcos de Oliveira; Santos, Francisco de Assis Ribeiro dos

doi:10.1080/00173134.2017.1358297

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“…Other species of the genus can have an RF of over 90%. This is the case of M. tenuiflora in the Melipona honeys harvested in the Caatinga region of Brazil [59]. Its high pollen presence (> 90%) in some honey may contribute to its geographical origin marking.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…However, M. pudica and M. pigra are classified in the Mimosa section [56,67]. Thus, according to botanical literature, M. pudica and M. pigra would not be nectariferous species [3,8,59,67,68]. Apart from these eleven taxa and except for non-identified species, other taxa in Table S1 would have nectar glands.…”

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Melissopalynological Analysis of Honey from French Guiana

Jiang,

Battesti,

Yang

et al. 2024

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Beekeeping directly depends on the floral biodiversity available to honey bees. In tropical regions, where nectar and pollen resources are numerous, the botanical origin of some honey is still under discussion. A precise knowledge of plants foraged by honey bees is useful to understand and certify the botanical origin of honey. In this study, attention was paid to honey samples from the French Guiana Atlantic coast where beekeepers generally place their hives in four types of biotopes: seaside vegetation, mangrove, savannah, and secondary forest. Pollen analysis of 87 honey samples enabled the identification of major plants visited by Africanized honey bees during the dry season (approximately from July to January). Through melissopalynologic analysis, 51 pollen types were identified and classified according to their relative presence. Frequently observed pollens (with relative presence > 50%) in French Guiana kinds of honey were those from Mimosa pudica, Cocos sp., Rhyncospora sp., Avicennia germinans, Paspalum sp., Spermacoce verticillata, Tapirira guianensis, Cecropia sp., Myrtaceae sp., Mauritia flexuosa sp., Solanum sp., and Protium sp. In many honeys, only M. pudica was over-represented (relative frequency > 90%). Color and electrical conductivity in French Guiana honeys exhibit significant variations, with color ranging from 27 mm to 110 mm Pfund, and electrical conductivity ranging from 0.35 to 1.22 mS/cm.

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Section: Contribution To Understanding Botanical Origins Of French Gu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Melissopalynological Analysis of Honey from French Guiana

Jiang,

Battesti,

Yang

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“…The use of melissopalynology for identifying nectar resources used by stingless bees on Brazil dates from 1960, according to an historical review (Barth 2004). Studies analyzed floral preferences of single stingless bee species on different regions, such as Melipona asilvai (Silva et al 2018), Melipona capixaba (Luz et al 2011), Melipona scutellaris (Carvalho et al 2001), Tetragonisca angustula (Novais and Absy 2015), Scaptotrigona aff. depilis (Aleixo et al 2017) and Scaptotrigona postica (Luz et al 2019).…”

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Melissopalynology Reveals the Foraging Preferences of the Stingless Bee Melipona seminigra pernigra Moure & Kerr 1950 (Apidae: Meliponini) in Cangas of Serra dos Carajás, Southeastern Amazonia

Guimarães¹,

Costa²,

Zappi³

et al. 2019

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The pollen content of honey samples collected in the years 2017 and 2019 from experimental apiaries of Melipona seminigra pernigra Moure & Kerr 1950 installed in campo rupestre on canga (CRC) vegetation of the Serra dos Carajás, southeastern Amazonia, was analyzed to understand the local variability of floral resources occurring on natural and disturbed areas. Around one hundred pollen types were identified mainly belonging to Fabaceae, Myrtaceae and Euphorbiaceae (31, 6 and 5 types, respectively). The N5 mine presented the highest pollen richness with 95 pollen types identified, almost twice of those identified in the other areas, including the better preserved ones. Eighty percent of the pollen types are rare with concentrations ≤ 2,000 pollen grains/10 g; the remaining types are the most abundant and frequent, and are considered the primary bee sources (PBS). PBS correspond mostly to native plants such as Tapirira guianensis Aubl., Protium spp., Aparisthmium cordatum (A.Juss.) Baill., Mimosa acutistipula var. ferrea Barneby, Periandra mediterrânea (Vell.) Taub., Miconia spp., Pleroma carajasense K.Rocha, Myrcia splendens (Sw.) DC., Serjania spp. and Solanum crinitum Lam. All pollen types were identified during both seasons, but higher pollen concentration are related to the dry period (June-September). The statistical analysis indicated that there was no significant difference in honey pollen data between the natural and disturbed areas since the plant species considered as PBS in this work are intensively used in revegetation of degraded area (RDA) processes by mining activities.

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