Atividades de vôo de Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) durante o período de postura da rainha e em diapausa

Pick, Raquel A.; Blochtein, Betina

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000300021

Resumo

The activities of four colonies of Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg, 1903), of São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were studied from October, 1998 to September. 1999, comparatively during the oviposition period and the diapause. The construction of the cells was monitored by direct observation of the nests. The duration of the diapause period varied from 76 to 168 days. Monthly, the bees that left and entered were counted for 10 minutes, at each hour, during the complete period of flight activity. Influence of meteorological factors on the activities of bees flight was analyzed through simple and multiple regressions. During the oviposition period was found that solar irradiation, temperature and relative humidity had a significant influence on bees flight activity. However, during the diapausa only solar irradiation and temperature played significant influence on bees flight activity. The wind never influenced in a significant way on the flight of the bees.

Plebeia; stingless bees; diapause; flight activity; meteorological factors

Atividades de vôo de Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) durante o período de postura da rainha e em diapausa

Flight activities of Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) during the oviposition period and the diapause

Raquel A. Pick^I,II; Betina Blochtein^I

^IFaculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Ipiranga 6681, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

^IIBolsista da CAPES

ABSTRACT

The activities of four colonies of Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg, 1903), of São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were studied from October, 1998 to September. 1999, comparatively during the oviposition period and the diapause. The construction of the cells was monitored by direct observation of the nests. The duration of the diapause period varied from 76 to 168 days. Monthly, the bees that left and entered were counted for 10 minutes, at each hour, during the complete period of flight activity. Influence of meteorological factors on the activities of bees flight was analyzed through simple and multiple regressions. During the oviposition period was found that solar irradiation, temperature and relative humidity had a significant influence on bees flight activity. However, during the diapausa only solar irradiation and temperature played significant influence on bees flight activity. The wind never influenced in a significant way on the flight of the bees.

Key words:Plebeia, stingless bees, diapause, flight activity, meteorological factors

Texto completo disponível apenas em PDF.

Full text available only in PDF format.

AGRADECIMENTOS. À Dra. Vera Imperatriz-Fonseca (USP) e Dra. Márcia Ribeiro (USP) pelo auxílio na metodologia. Ao MSc. Sérgio Hilário (USP) pelas sugestões e bibliografias cedidas. Ao Dr. Luiz Glock (PUCRS) e MSc. Walter Castro (PUCRS), pela orientação nas análises estatísticas. À CAPES por ter concedido bolsa de estudos.

Recebido em 25.V.2001; aceito em 03.IX.2002.

BERTOLETTI, J.J. & M.B. TEIXEIRA. 1995. Centro de Pesquisas e Conservação da Natureza Pró-Mata. Termo de Referência. Divul. Mus. Ciênc. Tecnol., Porto Alegre, 2: 1-47.
BRIAN. M.V. & A.F. KELLY. 1967. Studies of caste differentiantion in Myrmica rubra L. Insectes Soc. Paris. 1: 13-24.
DENLINGER, D.L. 1986. Dormancy in tropical insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 31: 239-264.
FREITAS, S.W. & D. WITTMANN. 1997. Poligenia temporária cm Plebeia wiuinanni Moure & Camargo, 1989 (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponinae). Biociências. Porto Alegre, 5 (2): 61-69.
GILBERT, W.M. 1973. Foraging behavior of Trigona fulviventris in Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol., San Francisco, 49: 21-25.
HEARD, T.A. & J.K. HENDRIKZ. 1993. Factors influencing flight activity of colonies of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Aust. Jour. Zool. 41: 343-353.
HILÁRIO, S.D.; V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA & A.M.P. KLEINERT. 2000. Flight activity and colony strength in the stingless bee Melipona bicolor bicolor (Apidae, Meliponinae). Rev. Brasil. Biol., Rio de Janeiro 60 (2): 299-306.
IBGE. 1986. Levantamento de Recursos Naturais. Rio de Janeiro. IBGE, Vol. 33, 796p.
IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA, V.L. & M.A.C. OLIVEIRA. 1976. Observations on a queenless colony of Plebéia saiqui (Friese) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool., São Paulo, 1: 299-312.
IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA, V.L.; A. KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI & J.T. PIRES. 1985. Climate variations influence on the flight activity of Plebeia remota Holmberg (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Revta bras. Ent. 29 (3/4): 427-434.
IWAMA, S. 1977. A influência de fatores climáticos na atividade externa de Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool., São Paulo, 2: 189-201.
JULIANI, L. 1967. A descrição do ninho e alguns dados biológicos sobre a abelha Plebeia julianii Moure, 1962 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revta bras. Ent. 12: 31-58.
KEFUSS, J.A. 1978. Influence of photoperiod on the behaviour and brood-rearing activities of honeybees in a flight room. Jour. Apic. Res., London, 17: 137-151.
KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI, A. & V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA. 1986. Flight activity and responses to climatic conditions of two subspecies of Melipona margínala Lepeletier (Apidae, Meliponinae). Jour. Apic. Res., London. 25 (1): 3-8.
KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI. A. 1982. The influence of climatic factors on flight activity of Plebéia emerina Friese (Hymenoptera. Apidae, Meliponinae) in winter. Revta bras. Ent. 26 (1): 1-13.
LACERDA, L.M.; R. ZUCCM & F.S. ZUCOLOTO. 1991. Colony condition and bionomic alterations in Geolrigona inusilala (Apidae, Meliponinae). Acta Biol. Par., Curitiba. 20 (1,2,3,4): 109-123.
LEATHER, S.R.; K.F.A. WALTERS & J.S. BALE. 1993. The ecology of Insect overwintering. Cambridge. Univ. Press. 255p.
MICHENER, C.D. 2000. The bees of the world. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 913p.
NECHOLS, J.R; M.J. TAUBER; C.A. TAUBER & S. MASAKI. 1999. Adaptations to hazardous seasonal conditions: dormancy, migration and polyphenism, p. 159-200. In: C.B. HUFFAKER & A.P. GUTIERREZ (Eds). Ecological Entomology. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2^nd ed., 756p.
NOGUEIRA-NETO, P. 1997. Vida e criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão. São Paulo, Nogueirapis, 445p.
OLIVEIRA, M.A.C 1973. Um método para avaliação das atividades de vôo em Plebeia saiqui (Friese) (Hymenoptera, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool. Biol. Mar., N. Ser., São Paulo, 30: 625-631.
PIRANI, J.R. & M. CORTOPASSI-LAURINO (Eds). 1993. Flores e abelhas de São Paulo. São Paulo, Editora Univ. São Paulo, 2ª ed., 192p.
TAUBER, M.J. & CA. TAUBER. 1976. Insect seasonality: diapause maintenance, termination e posdiapause development. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 21: 81-107.
²⁴
TERADA, Y. 1972. Curvas de sobrevivência em operárias de Plebeia droryana (Hymenoptera. Meliponini). Cien. Cult., São Paulo, 24 (6): 343-344.
VAN BENTHEM, F.D.J.; V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA & H.H.W. VELTHUIS. 1995. Biology of the stingless bee Plebeia remota (Holmberg). Observations and evolutionary implications. Insectes Soc., Paris, 42: 71-87.
VAN LAERE, O.V. 1971. Influencia de algunos factores en el reposo invernal de Ias colônias de abejas. Apiacta, Bucarest, 6 (2): 55-58.
WILMS, W; L. LUTZ; A. ZILLIKENS; B. BLOCHTEIN & W. ENGELS. 1997. Bees and other insects recorded on flowering trees in a subtropical Araucaria Florest in southern Brazil. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ. 32: 220-226.
WITTMANN. D. & M. HOFFMANN. 1990. Bees of Rio Grande do Sul. southern Brazil (Insecta. Hymenoptera. Apoidea). Iheringia, Ser. Zool., Porto Alegre, (70): 17-43.

Datas de Publicação

Publicação nesta coleção
15 Maio 2009
Data do Fascículo
Set 2002

Histórico

Aceito
03 Set 2002
Recebido
25 Maio 2001

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

[1] BERTOLETTI, J.J. & M.B. TEIXEIRA. 1995. Centro de Pesquisas e Conservação da Natureza Pró-Mata. Termo de Referência. Divul. Mus. Ciênc. Tecnol., Porto Alegre, 2: 1-47.

[2] BRIAN. M.V. & A.F. KELLY. 1967. Studies of caste differentiantion in Myrmica rubra L. Insectes Soc. Paris. 1: 13-24.

[3] DENLINGER, D.L. 1986. Dormancy in tropical insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 31: 239-264.

[4] FREITAS, S.W. & D. WITTMANN. 1997. Poligenia temporária cm Plebeia wiuinanni Moure & Camargo, 1989 (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponinae). Biociências. Porto Alegre, 5 (2): 61-69.

[5] GILBERT, W.M. 1973. Foraging behavior of Trigona fulviventris in Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol., San Francisco, 49: 21-25.

[6] HEARD, T.A. & J.K. HENDRIKZ. 1993. Factors influencing flight activity of colonies of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Aust. Jour. Zool. 41: 343-353.

[7] HILÁRIO, S.D.; V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA & A.M.P. KLEINERT. 2000. Flight activity and colony strength in the stingless bee Melipona bicolor bicolor (Apidae, Meliponinae). Rev. Brasil. Biol., Rio de Janeiro 60 (2): 299-306.

[8] IBGE. 1986. Levantamento de Recursos Naturais. Rio de Janeiro. IBGE, Vol. 33, 796p.

[9] IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA, V.L. & M.A.C. OLIVEIRA. 1976. Observations on a queenless colony of Plebéia saiqui (Friese) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool., São Paulo, 1: 299-312.

[10] IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA, V.L.; A. KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI & J.T. PIRES. 1985. Climate variations influence on the flight activity of Plebeia remota Holmberg (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Revta bras. Ent. 29 (3/4): 427-434.

[11] IWAMA, S. 1977. A influência de fatores climáticos na atividade externa de Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool., São Paulo, 2: 189-201.

[12] JULIANI, L. 1967. A descrição do ninho e alguns dados biológicos sobre a abelha Plebeia julianii Moure, 1962 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revta bras. Ent. 12: 31-58.

[13] KEFUSS, J.A. 1978. Influence of photoperiod on the behaviour and brood-rearing activities of honeybees in a flight room. Jour. Apic. Res., London, 17: 137-151.

[14] KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI, A. & V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA. 1986. Flight activity and responses to climatic conditions of two subspecies of Melipona margínala Lepeletier (Apidae, Meliponinae). Jour. Apic. Res., London. 25 (1): 3-8.

[15] KLEINERT-GIOVANNINI. A. 1982. The influence of climatic factors on flight activity of Plebéia emerina Friese (Hymenoptera. Apidae, Meliponinae) in winter. Revta bras. Ent. 26 (1): 1-13.

[16] LACERDA, L.M.; R. ZUCCM & F.S. ZUCOLOTO. 1991. Colony condition and bionomic alterations in Geolrigona inusilala (Apidae, Meliponinae). Acta Biol. Par., Curitiba. 20 (1,2,3,4): 109-123.

[17] LEATHER, S.R.; K.F.A. WALTERS & J.S. BALE. 1993. The ecology of Insect overwintering. Cambridge. Univ. Press. 255p.

[18] MICHENER, C.D. 2000. The bees of the world. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 913p.

[19] NECHOLS, J.R; M.J. TAUBER; C.A. TAUBER & S. MASAKI. 1999. Adaptations to hazardous seasonal conditions: dormancy, migration and polyphenism, p. 159-200. In: C.B. HUFFAKER & A.P. GUTIERREZ (Eds). Ecological Entomology. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2^nd ed., 756p.

[20] NOGUEIRA-NETO, P. 1997. Vida e criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão. São Paulo, Nogueirapis, 445p.

[21] OLIVEIRA, M.A.C 1973. Um método para avaliação das atividades de vôo em Plebeia saiqui (Friese) (Hymenoptera, Meliponinae). Bol. Zool. Biol. Mar., N. Ser., São Paulo, 30: 625-631.

[22] PIRANI, J.R. & M. CORTOPASSI-LAURINO (Eds). 1993. Flores e abelhas de São Paulo. São Paulo, Editora Univ. São Paulo, 2ª ed., 192p.

[23] TAUBER, M.J. & CA. TAUBER. 1976. Insect seasonality: diapause maintenance, termination e posdiapause development. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 21: 81-107.

[24] ²⁴
TERADA, Y. 1972. Curvas de sobrevivência em operárias de Plebeia droryana (Hymenoptera. Meliponini). Cien. Cult., São Paulo, 24 (6): 343-344.

[25] VAN BENTHEM, F.D.J.; V.L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA & H.H.W. VELTHUIS. 1995. Biology of the stingless bee Plebeia remota (Holmberg). Observations and evolutionary implications. Insectes Soc., Paris, 42: 71-87.

[26] VAN LAERE, O.V. 1971. Influencia de algunos factores en el reposo invernal de Ias colônias de abejas. Apiacta, Bucarest, 6 (2): 55-58.

[27] WILMS, W; L. LUTZ; A. ZILLIKENS; B. BLOCHTEIN & W. ENGELS. 1997. Bees and other insects recorded on flowering trees in a subtropical Araucaria Florest in southern Brazil. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ. 32: 220-226.

[28] WITTMANN. D. & M. HOFFMANN. 1990. Bees of Rio Grande do Sul. southern Brazil (Insecta. Hymenoptera. Apoidea). Iheringia, Ser. Zool., Porto Alegre, (70): 17-43.

Brasil

Brasil

Atividades de vôo de Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) durante o período de postura da rainha e em diapausa

Flight activities of Plebeia saiqui (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) during the oviposition period and the diapause

Resumo

Datas de Publicação

Histórico