Frugivory by a stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Autor: Peruquetti RC; Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal do Acre, Embrapa Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil., Costa Lda S, Silva VS, Drumond PM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neotropical entomology [Neotrop Entomol] 2010 Nov-Dec; Vol. 39 (6), pp. 1051-2.
DOI: 10.1590/s1519-566x2010000600033
Abstrakt: Frugivory is not frequent among bees. Although stingless bees visit aged fruits for pulp, the use of fresh fruits is recorded only for Trigona hypogea Silvestri, a species that does not visit flowers. Here we report the occurrence of frugivory in Trigona amazonensis (Ducke), a flower-visiting stingless bee.
Databáze: MEDLINE