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Provedor de dados: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
País: | Brazil
Título: | A new technique in the excavation of ground-nest bee burrows (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
Autores: | Marinho,Diego; Andrade,Juliana; Araujo,Rodrigo O.; Vivallo,Felipe.
Data: | 2018-01-01
Ano: | 2018
Palavras-chave: | Apidae; Apoidea; Brood cells; Methodology; Solitary bees.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Bees have a diversified natural history, thus the methods applied to study such diversity are varied. When it comes to studies of nesting biology, bees which nest in pre-existing cavities have been reasonably well studied since researchers started using trap-nests. However, bees whose nests are built underground are poorly studied due to the difficulty of finding natural nesting areas and the absence of a method that facilitates bee nest excavation. The latter is evidenced by the lack of accurate descriptions in literature of how nests are excavated. In this study we tested cylindrical rubber refills of eraser pen as a new material to be used as a tracer of underground nest galleries in a natural nesting area of two species of Epicharis Klug, 1807 (Apidae). We compared this technique directly with plaster in powder form mixed with water and our results with other methodological studies describing alternative methods and materials. The rubber refill technique overcame the main issues presented by materials such as plaster, molten metal alloys and bioplastic, namely: death of the organisms by high temperatures and/or formation of plugs and materials unduly following the roots inside the galleries.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262018000100001
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.11.003
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.62 n.1 2018
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess