Melitocoria de Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & Grimes por Melipona seminigra merrillae Cockerell, 1919 y Melipona compressipes manaosensis Schwarz, 1932 (Hymenoptera, Meliponina) en la Amazonía Central, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Bacelar-lima, Christinny Giselly
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Freire, Delci da Costa Brito, Silva, Alexandre Coletto da, Costa, Klilton Barbosa da, Laray, Jonilson Paulo Barros, Vilas-boas, Hélio Conceição, Carvalho-zilse, Gislene Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/13457
• topic: Seeds; Scattering; Meliponines; Meliponiculture; Angelim-rajado

During the period from January to April 2005 seeds of Zygia racemosa were found incorporated in the nest structures, inside the colonies of stingless bee in two experimental meliponaries in Manaus - Am. It was registered an intense activity of the bee-workers of Melipona seminigra merrillae and M. compressipes manaosensis arriving from the field with seeds set in the corbiculae adhered with resin and/or leaving the colonies with the seeds clipped in their jaws. Eighty seeds were collected inside the colonies (mixed with the batume in the litter and/or cracks), and also outside them, near the entrance of the colony, as a result of the falling of corbiculae during the flight of the bee-workers. These seeds were planted in seedbeds for seedling production and posterior identification of the botanical species. As a way to confirm the scattering of the seeds, searches were done in the field (in an area of approximately 3km of extension), as well as observations of the collection of the seeds made by the bees. A total of 170 seedlings of Z. racemosa were found in the outskirts of the GPA-INPA meliponary and 160 in the Vale Verde meliponary. The results indicate that M. compressipes and M. seminigra collect and scatter the seeds of Z. racemosa.