LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Volatile compounds and palynological analysis from pollen pots of stingless bees from the mid-north region of Brazil

Lima Neto, José de Sousa; Lopes, José Arimatéia Dantas; Moita Neto, José Machado; Lima, Sidney Gonçalo de; Luz, Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da; Citó, Antônia Maria das Graças Lopes.

Braz. J. Pharm. Sci. (Online); 53 (2), 2017

ABSTRACT Samburá is the botanical pollen nectar agglutinated by salivary secretions of bees. Stingless bee pollen samples were collected in three periods of the year in Monsenhor Gil town, PI, Brazil, for extraction of volatile constituents by different techniques, analyzed by gas chromatography-mass sp...

Compuestos Orgánicos Volátiles/farmacología, Mimosa/clasificación, Cromatografía de Gases y Espectrometría de Masas/instrumentación, Abejas/clasificación, Polen/metabolismo

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Morphological characterization of pollens from three Apiaceae species and their ingestion by twelve-spotted lady beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Abstract Larvae and adults of certain species of predator lady beetles feed on pollen, guaranteeing their survival, and at times, reproduction in the absence of preferred prey. Palynology, therefore, may contribute in the investigation of botanical families visited by these predators in order to obtain t...