▪ Abstract Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are common visitors to flowering plants in the
tropics, but evidence for their importance and effectiveness as crop pollinators is lacking for …

Myrtaceae é uma das famílias de plantas mais importantes em várias formações vegetais
brasileiras, especialmente nas florestas. Suas flores hermafroditas, de cor geralmente clara …

This paper reports on pollen and nectar sources for stingless bees in neotropical habitats.
Some 288 species were considered important bee plants. Eighty of these were important for …

This paper reviews current knowledge on the occurrence of several types of pollen grains in
the sediments of honey samples, propolis and bee loads of Apiinae and Meliponinae in …

The highly eusocial bee community of the neotropical Atlantic Rainforest was studied at
Boracéia Biological Station in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. In this reserve, 17 species of …

The foraging success of a bee species is related to a combination of climatic factors and
resource availability. Here, we analyzed how food storage by the stingless bee …

Pollen and nectar harvested by colonies of two stingless bee species (Melipona bicolor and
M quadrifasciata) and the Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera) were monitored over a year …

Os visitantes florais são animais que buscam, nas flores, recursos para si ou para sua prole.
Às vezes uma mesma planta pode receber um espectro grande de visitantes, como é o caso …

The diversity of pollen collected by Melipona spp. in two communities in southern Brazil was
evaluated. The data were compared with those obtained by other researchers in the …

Pollen analysis is widely used to verify the geographic origin of honeys, but has never been
employed in Australia. In this study, we analysed the pollen content of 173 unblended honey …