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Rui C Peruquetti1, Luena da S M da Costa, Valdirene S da Silva
1Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal do Acre, Embrapa Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil.
Neotropical Entomology
|January 29, 2011
Abstract:
Frugivory is not frequent among bees. Although stingless bees visit aged fruits for pulp, the use of fresh fruits is recorded only for Trigona hypogea Silvestri, a species that does not visit flowers. Here we report the occurrence of frugivory in Trigona amazonensis (Ducke), a flower-visiting stingless bee.
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