Species Of Bees And Caracterization Of The Honeys Produced By Them
(Almeida, Daniela de)
Species of bees (Hymenoptera, apoidea) andcaracterization of the honeys produced by themin the cerrado area of the municipality ofPirassununga, state of São Paulo, Brazil.This research deals with the community of bees from the "cerrado" areaof the Campus of the University of São Paulo, in Pirassununga, State ofSão Paulo, Brazil. The bees occurring on flowering plants werefortnightly sampled from July 2000 to July 2002. The honeys produced bythe most frequent bee Species were characterized as well. The 511collected specimens were composed by 51 species and 31 genera of 4families of the Apoidea. The bee community of the "cerrado" followedthe same general pattern of the neotropical communities, presentingmany species with few individuals and few species with manyindividuals. The family Apidae ("sensu latu") was the most abundant onewith the highest number of species. One observed long flowering periodplants together with short flowering ones, thus providing nutritionalresources for the bees the year round. Visiting bees were collected in52.86% of the 140 flowering plant species, most of them (18.92%) fromthe family Asteraceae. However Didimopanax vinosum (Araliaceae) was theplant species presenting the highest number of visiting bees.Concerning the species of meliponids studied the honey production waslow due to the restricted number of colonies found in the area. As toApis mellifera the honey production was higher from August to November,but it was impossible to collect samples from December to February. Themean of the physicochemical parameters used to analyse the honeysamples from the two cerrado areas do fit with the standard rules.Through pollen analyses one observed that the bees have visited mainlyplants of Eucalyptus sp. and Citrus sp. in the neighboring areas totheir hives.
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