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Análise polínica de amostra de méis de Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae) da chapada do Araripe, município de Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brasil

2005; INSTITUTO DE ZOOTECNIA IZ/APTA-SAA/SP; Volume: 62; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

1981-4100

Augusta C. de C. C. Moreti, Carolina Maranhão Fernandes de Arruda, Luís Carlos Marchini, Geni da Silva Sodré,

Plant and animal studies

This research deals with the determination of the floral origin of honeys produced by Apis mellifera L., in the region of the Chapada do Araripe, municipality of Santana do Cariri, State of Ceara, Brazil. The pollen analysis of 21 samples of honeys collected from November to December, 2001, were carried out in the Laboratorio de Apicultura, Departmento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agricola, of the Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Piracicaba, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The identification of the pollen types was made by comparison with the reference slides and the pollen grain descriptions were obtained in the literature. The results indicated 41 pollen types, seven of them considered dominant or accessory as Borreria verticillata, Mimosa verrucosa, Cordia sp., Serjania sp., and the pollen types of Coccoloba, Myrcia and Solanaceae sp1. The analysis of these honeys showed the presence of pollen grains of Serjania sp. (“cipo-uva”) in all the samples studied.