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Provedor de dados: 	39	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Pollen analysis of the post-emergence residue of Melipona (Melikerria) interrupta Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bred in the central Amazon region	
Autores: 	Ferreira,Marcos Gonçalves; Absy,Maria Lúcia.	
Data: 	2013-12-01	
Ano: 	2013	
Palavras-chave: 	Stingless bees; Palynology; Pollen; Floral resources.	
Resumo: 	We applied an "adapted" protocol for collecting and processing pollen grains in the pollen analysis of the post-emergence residue of Melipona (Melikerria) interrupta Latreille. The study was conducted at the Sant'Ana honey farm, located on the banks of the Solimões River, in the municipality of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, where a colony was monitored in October and November 2010. From that colony, 10 samples of post-emergence residue were collected. Unlike in the acetolysis method, there was no need to expose pollen grains to an acidic medium, because pollen loses its content during the larval digestive process. We identified 32 pollen types, from 19 botanical families, plus three undetermined pollen types. The most representative family was Fabaceae (Mimosoideae), with eight pollen types, Mimosa guilandinae being the most common species. Only the pollen of Miconia (Melastomataceae), with 74.10%, was classified as a common pollen. We also found that the pollen of Mimosa pudica (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) retained its content, indicating that not all resources furnished by workers are utilized by the larvae. The protocol applied here, despite omitting the acetolysis process, was efficient, providing full details of pollen contained in post-emergence residue.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062013000400009	
Editor: 	Sociedade Botânica do Brasil	
Relação: 	10.1590/S0102-33062013000400009	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Acta Botanica Brasilica  v.27 n.4 2013	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess