ApidologiePub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01068-6
Santiago Plischuk, Jeffrey H. Skevington, Marina Haramboure, Pablo D. Revainera, Gregorio Fernández de Landa, Silvina Quintana, Carlos E. Lange
{"title":"Parasitoid flies associated with bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Argentina","authors":"Santiago Plischuk, Jeffrey H. Skevington, Marina Haramboure, Pablo D. Revainera, Gregorio Fernández de Landa, Silvina Quintana, Carlos E. Lange","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01068-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01068-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Both the identity and prevalence of parasitoid dipterans associated with bumble bees (<i>Bombus</i> spp.) in southern South America are little known. Between 2009 and 2017, a total of 2978 bumble bees were individually collected in 63 localities from 11 provinces of the country. After dissections, the presence of parasitoids was observed in the native bumble bees <i>Bombus pauloensis</i>, <i>B. bellicosus</i>, <i>B. opifex</i>, and <i>B. brasiliensis</i>, plus in the exotic invasive species <i>B. terrestris</i>. A combination of both morphological and molecular analysis based on the COI gene allowed the isolation of two species of <i>Physocephala</i> (Conopidae) and one of <i>Helicobia</i> (Sarcophagidae), expanding their host range and geographic distribution. The second instar larva of <i>Helicobia aurescens</i> is described.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01066-8
M. Cecilia Estravis-Barcala, Pablo J. Ramello, Valentín Almada, Juan P. Torretta, Mariano Lucia
{"title":"A scientific note on the differential handling behaviour of two large carpenter bees on an inverted keel flower","authors":"M. Cecilia Estravis-Barcala, Pablo J. Ramello, Valentín Almada, Juan P. Torretta, Mariano Lucia","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01066-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01066-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-03-28DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01061-z
Glaucieli Aparecida Alves, Jean Pablo Alves de Deus, Paula Carolina Montagnana, Caroline Nepomuceno Queiros, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Maria Luisa Tunes Buschini
{"title":"Edge effects on the cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities and their natural enemies within fragmented landscapes","authors":"Glaucieli Aparecida Alves, Jean Pablo Alves de Deus, Paula Carolina Montagnana, Caroline Nepomuceno Queiros, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Maria Luisa Tunes Buschini","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01061-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01061-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Changes in landscape structure have increased the edge amount between different environments, and its implications for biodiversity may vary depending on the level of analysis, ecological groups, and species life history. We investigated the effect of distance from the forest edge on species of solitary wasps and bees and their associated natural enemies, on a gradient from 200 m into the anthropogenic matrix to 200 m into the forest, in Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil. In general, species were positively affected by forest edge proximity, while those forest specialists were more negatively influenced. The natural enemy species were more dependent on the distribution of their hosts than on the edge effect directly. Caterpillar and spider hunters seem to be positively affected by the edge, while pollen collectors progressively decrease their richness and abundance from the matrix towards the interior of forest area, and cockroach hunters present an opposite response. We demonstrate the importance of forest conservation and reforestation programs, not only by some cavity-nesting wasps and bees being entirely dependent on forests to persist, but also because most species sampled here depend on being close to a forest edge (less than 100 m) to carry out their ecological holes. Therefore, understanding how different species respond to environmental and landscape changes and may depend on staying close to forests is essential for effective management and planning strategies for biodiversity conservation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01065-9
Pablo J. Ramello, Valentín Almada, Lorena Ashworth, Leopoldo J. Alvarez, Mariano Lucia
{"title":"Bee size increases pollen deposition in Cucurbita maxima (Cucurbitaceae) crops","authors":"Pablo J. Ramello, Valentín Almada, Lorena Ashworth, Leopoldo J. Alvarez, Mariano Lucia","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01065-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01065-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study of the performance of animal pollinators has expanded in recent decades mainly due to the concern on crop productivity. Among insects, bees are the main pollinators of most Angiosperm species. The aim of this paper was to study the effect of bee body size on the pollination of <i>Cucurbita maxima</i> Duch. (Cucurbitaceae) var. <i>zapallito</i> crops. We quantified stigmatic pollen deposition by single visits of bee species with different body sizes. Bee species were classified into four categories accordingly to their intertegular distance: <i>Very small</i> (≤ 1.7 mm), <i>Small</i> (1.71 mm < 2.7 mm), <i>Medium</i> (2.71 mm < 3.7 mm) and <i>Large</i> (> 3.71 mm). Fifteen bee species belonging to the Apidae and Halictidae families were observed depositing pollen on the stigmas of <i>C. maxima</i>. The number of pollen grains deposited and the probability of pollen deposition per visit increased significantly with body size. <i>Large</i> bees <i>Xylocopa augusti</i> and <i>Bombus pauloensis</i> were the most efficient species at depositing pollen on stigmas followed by <i>medium-</i>sized bees <i>Eucera fervens</i> and <i>Apis mellifera</i>. The results show that several wild bee species play an important role in the pollination of <i>C. maxima</i> crops. This research provides baseline data for the design of pollination studies to develop strategies to optimize pollination of this crop.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140166439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melissopalynology of pot-pollen and pot-honey of the Mayan stingless bee Melipona beecheii Bennett, 1831 (Apidae, Meliponini) in Yucatan, Mexico","authors":"Armando Ismael Bacab-Pérez, Elia Ramírez-Arriaga, Azucena Canto","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01060-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01060-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Mayan bee <i>Melipona beecheii</i> is one of the most important and widely cultivated stingless bees in Mexico. In order to document pollen and nectar resources for <i>M. beecheii</i> during the dry season, 25 pot-pollen and 25 pot-honey samples were collected from February to May 2021 at eight villages in Yucatan, Mexico. All samples were acetolysed, and 500 pollen grains were counted randomly for each sample. A total of 21 taxa belonging to eight botanical families were observed in the pot-pollen samples; in contrast, 32 pollen types from 16 botanical families were recorded in the pot-honey samples. According to PCA analyses, the pollen types that explained the maximum variance among the pot-pollen samples were <i>Senna racemosa</i> var. <i>racemosa</i>, <i>Lonchocarpus punctatum</i>, <i>Cochlospermum vitifolium</i>, <i>Bursera schlechtendalii</i> and <i>B. simaruba</i>, while <i>S. racemosa</i> var. <i>racemosa</i>, <i>C. vitifolium</i>, <i>Alternanthera ramosissima</i>, <i>Psidium guajava</i>, <i>B. schlechtendalii</i>, <i>B. simaruba</i>, <i>L. punctatum,</i> <i>Mimosa bahamensis </i>and <i>Solanum americanum </i>explained the greatest variance among the pot-honey samples. Our results confirm that <i>M. beecheii</i> displays polylectic foraging and targets for the secondary vegetation of tropical deciduous and tropical semideciduous forests. Diversity in the pot-pollen was found to be lower than that of the pot-honey samples. Since some pot-honey samples were overrepresented by the pollen grains of <i>S. racemosa</i> var. <i>racemosa</i>, PCA and cluster analysis grouped those pot-pollen and pot-honey samples together.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-024-01060-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140098197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01063-x
Samuel Boff, Alexandre Somavilla
{"title":"Scientific note on a Neotropical wasp preying on stingless bees","authors":"Samuel Boff, Alexandre Somavilla","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01063-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01063-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The antagonistic interaction between wasps and bees has long driven the attention of beekeepers and evolutionary entomologists. In the most classic reported interaction, <i>Vespa velutina</i> may invade the nest of honeybees and kill many of workers. Although this interaction has been registered to Asian honeybees, which was shown how to defend the nests, little or no attention has been given to similar interactions in the Neotropical region. Here, we report for the first time an antagonistic interaction between the wasp <i>Polybia ignobilis</i> and the stingless bees, <i>Tetragonisca angustula</i>. The wasp of this species was recorded killing and chewing guard bees near at the nest entrance of the stingless bee. Although our report is limited to answer evolutionary aspects of this interaction, it raises questions which may help to understand in the future the reasons this behavior evolved.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-024-01063-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140032654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01064-w
Agustín Sáez, Gabriel Arbona, Andreu Juan, Bartolomé Company Ferragut, Traveset Anna
{"title":"Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds","authors":"Agustín Sáez, Gabriel Arbona, Andreu Juan, Bartolomé Company Ferragut, Traveset Anna","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01064-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01064-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Decreasing the dependence on external inputs to crop yield maximization is one of the main objectives of agricultural breeding programs. For this reason, new crop varieties once highly dependent on pollinators have been developed to be self-fertile and are now cultivated as pollinator-independent. However, the contribution of pollinators to these varieties remains unknown. In this study, we evaluated pollinators’ contribution to two self-fertile almond varieties (Marta and Marinada) and the density of pollinators needed to ensure adequate pollination. We measured the effects of pollinators on fruit set, seed yield, and pollination limitation at the tree level. Managed honeybees and wild bumblebees were the main floral visitors in both varieties. Both fruit set and seed yield were ~ 50% higher in pollinated trees than in excluded ones in the two varieties. We found no evidence of pollination limitation, suggesting that pollinators’ abundance was sufficient for adequate pollination. We recommend that almond growers actively manage pollinators to maximize seed yield and profits in these self-fertile varieties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140017017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01062-y
Marina Souza Cunha, Milton Ronnau, Lucio Antonio Oliveira Campos, Denilce Meneses Lopes, José Lino-Neto
{"title":"Morphological differences between Tetragonisca angustula and Tetragonisca fiebrigi (Apidae: Meliponini)","authors":"Marina Souza Cunha, Milton Ronnau, Lucio Antonio Oliveira Campos, Denilce Meneses Lopes, José Lino-Neto","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01062-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01062-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><i>Tetragonisca angustula</i> and <i>T. fiebrigi</i> are morphologically similar and differentiated mainly by the mesepisternum color, black in the former and ferruginous in the latter. Mixed mesepisternum color on some bees has raised discussions about the taxonomic status of these species if some degree of hybridization can occur between them and they should be regarded as subspecies. Our goal was to investigate if <i>T. angustula</i> and <i>T. fiebrigi</i> are two valid species and contribute to their taxonomic identification. We sampled several colonies from distant Brazilian regions (range of 3,000 km) to analyze the mesepisternum color variation of males and workers, genitalia morphology of males and females (queens and workers), and aggressiveness of the workers in both species. Despite some color variations in some colonies, there are always individuals with typical mesepisternum color inside each colony, <i>i.e.,</i> black in <i>T. angustula</i> and ferruginous in <i>T. fiebrigi</i>. The fact that both <i>T. angustula</i> and <i>T. fiebrigi</i> males have black mesepisternum could be causing species misclassifications. The genitalia morphology of males (shape and length of gonostylus and penis valve) and females (gonostylus shape) was consistently different between both species<i>.</i> None of the analyzed male aggregations exhibited mixed males of <i>T. angustula</i> and <i>T. fiebrigi</i>, which indicates that the queen attracts only co-specific males. <i>Tetragonisca angustula</i> workers displayed an aggressive behavior, whereas <i>T. fiebrigi</i> workers were unaggressive. The observed morphological and behavioral differences may be indicators of reproductive isolation between the two species. Therefore, we conclude that <i>T. angustula</i> and <i>T. fiebrigi</i> are two valid species.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140016922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01057-9
Júlia Colombelli Agostini, Elaine Françoso, Maria Cristina Arias, Fernando César Vieira Zanella
{"title":"Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)","authors":"Júlia Colombelli Agostini, Elaine Françoso, Maria Cristina Arias, Fernando César Vieira Zanella","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01057-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01057-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><i>Xylocopa nigrocincta</i> Smith, 1854, and <i>Xylocopa suspecta</i> Moure & Camargo, 1988, are two nominal species within the subgenus <i>Neoxylocopa</i> and have a sympatric geographic distribution in South America. While <i>X. nigrocincta</i> is recognized by the presence of reddish metasomatic bands, <i>X. suspecta</i> is entirely black. Although morphologically distinct in terms of metasomal band colour, other morphological characters suggest that both species could be the same evolutionary entity and therefore synonymous. The aim of this research was to review both nigrocincta and suspecta morphotypes using an integrative approach (morphological and molecular) to evaluate if they are truly two different evolutionary lineages. Females of both species were obtained from field collections and museums, representing a large part of their morphotype distribution. Additional diagnostic characters of the external morphology were investigated, such as metasomal band colour, metasomal punctuation, wing colours, and apical regions of the basitibial plate. Mitochondrial gene sequences (<i>COI</i> and <i>CytB</i>) were used for phylogenetic reconstructions. Our results showed that both nigrocincta and suspecta morphotypes are undistinguished based on morphology, although the metasomal band colour, together with the geographic distribution, revealed the presence of three distinct morphogroups, including an intermediate one with a variable number of reddish bands. Nonetheless, the three morphogroups are not supported by molecular data and therefore represent intra-specific variations. In conclusion, our results do not support the hypothesis that the two nominal species are distinct evolutionary lineages, and we propose a synonym between <i>X. nigrocincta</i> and <i>X. suspecta</i>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-024-01057-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139980350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ApidologiePub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1007/s13592-024-01056-w
Martin Schlager, Johann Neumayer, Jana S. Petermann, Stefan Dötterl
{"title":"Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows","authors":"Martin Schlager, Johann Neumayer, Jana S. Petermann, Stefan Dötterl","doi":"10.1007/s13592-024-01056-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13592-024-01056-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Most terrestrial ecosystems are shaped by the pollination service provided by insects, foremost bees. As bees are also important pollinators of crop plants, they are key for both the pollination of wild plants and for agricultural production. Meadows and semi-natural habitats (SNHs) are important habitats for bees. However, there is limited knowledge on how land-use intensity of meadows affects wild bees and managed Western honey bees. Further, it is unknown whether SNHs adjacent to meadows affect bees in meadows. Here, we examined in a landscape dominated by grasslands, the effects of land-use intensity (nitrogen input, grazing intensity, mowing frequency), flower availability and adjacent SNHs on bee communities in meadows. We recorded more than 5000 individuals of 87 species of bees and found no effect of land-use intensity on wild and honey bees. Flowering plant species richness had a positive effect on bee species richness in one study year. Though we recorded more bee species in SNHs than meadows, overall and specifically in ecologically specialized bee species (e.g. parasitic bees, oligoleges), the availability of adjacent SNHs did not affect bee abundance and richness in meadows. We discuss why land-use intensity and SNHs adjacent to meadows did not affect bees in meadows and conclude that SNHs are important in sustaining functionally diverse bee communities in landscapes dominated by grasslands.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8078,"journal":{"name":"Apidologie","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-024-01056-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139758100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}