Claim · model-written summary
Melipona mimetica collected diverse pollen types, averaging 16 per individual bee.
- Taxon
- stingless bee species
Scaptotrigona posticae0 - Interactor
- stingless bee speciesScaptotrigona posticae0pollinator
- Outcome
- pollen types collected by individual beese0
- Value
- 16 pollen typese0
Verbatim
e0“Both stingless bee species exhibited a polylectic behavior, with an average of 16 pollen types collected by individual bees”
Title
Fernando P Gaona; Anthony Guerrero; Elizabeth Gusmán; et al. Journal of Insect Science 2019. doi:10.1093/jisesa/iez125
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Bee pollen contained 68 types from 31 botanical families.
- Observation Fabaceae represented 16% of pollen types.
- Observation Malvaceae represented 7% of pollen types.
- Observation Boraginaceae represented 7% of pollen types.
- Observation The two bee species differed in pollen-type abundances collected.