Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

http//moure.cria.org.br/project
e-mail: vlifonse@ib.usp.br
Brazilian Pollinators Initiative:
Biodiversity and Sustainable Use of Pollinators
Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca; Antonio Mauro Saraiva; Lionel Segui Gonçalves
New tool for automatic
identification under
development: morphometric
geometry of Meliponini wings
(T.M. Francoy, USP)
Assessment Stingless Bees Management
Nesting of stingless bees in trapnests.
Tools for field data
acquisition: trap
nest scouter software
on a pocket PC
(E.M.M. Jorge & A.M.
Saraiva, USP)
Portals for pollinators data: IABIN – Pollinators
Thematic Network (pollinators.iabin.net) with CoEvolution
Institute, ITIS, NBII. (L.D. Adams coordinator, M. Ruggiero and
A.M. Saraiva)
Pollinators Collections Network
Pollinators collections and their records: The pollinators
collections network has 12 collections with about 213
thousand records of which 169 thousand are georeferenced
(20% of total estimated records)
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frequency of brood combs (%)
Queen rearing in vitro in
Nannotrigona and
Scaptotrigona
(Meliponini)
(C. Menezes, USP)
A)
n=2180 queens
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
frequency of queens of females (%)
B)
n=4128 males
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
frequency of males (%)
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Stingless bees conservation and management
in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
S.W. Freitas (FEPAGRO); B.
Blochtein (PUC-RS) & V.L.
Imperatriz-Fonseca (USP)
frequency of brood combs (%)
frequency of brood combs (%)
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n=883 queens
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
frequency of queens of females (%)
D)
n=1737 males
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
frequency of males (%)
Distribution of the frequency of queens (of females) (A, C) and males (B, D) in M.
scutellaris brood combs. A-B: isolated population; C-D: natural population. (D.A.
Alves, USP)
A-B
C-D