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Honey bee as an effective pollinating agent of pumpkin
Provedor de dados: Scientia Agricola
Autores: Nicodemo,Daniel; Couto,Regina Helena Nogueira; Malheiros,Euclides Braga; De Jong,David.
The production of fruits and seeds of many crops is increased when bees visit their flowers pollinating them. The aim of this research was to study the pollination of pumpkins (Cucurbita maxima Duch. var. Exposição), to determine the diversity of insects visiting its flowers, the time and type of provision obtained and the effect of the visits on fruit set, fruit size and weight, and number of seeds. Apis mellifera L. accounted for 73.4% of the visits made by bees, collecting pollen during 34.5 s per flower and nectar in 43.9 s and 29.3 s from female and male flowers, respectively. Trigona spinipes (Fabr.) collected only nectar, during a mean time of 60.5 s per flower, and represented 26.6% of the visits by bees. Diabrotica speciosa (Germ.) only fed on the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cucurbita maxima; Pollination; Honey bee.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162009000400007