scholarly journals Comportamento de forrageamento de Apis mellifera L. em Azadirachta indica A. Juss no semiárido do Piauí

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e8077
Author(s):  
Orlaneide da Silva Brito ◽  
Juliana do Nascimento Bendini ◽  
Maria Carolina Abreu

Objetivou-se por meio do estudo avaliar o comportamento de coleta de abelhas africanizadas em flores de árvores de Nim no município de Picos, Piauí, Brasil. Para tanto, no período de fevereiro a dezembro de 2016, durante três dias consecutivos de cada mês, foi realizada uma avaliação da atividade de coleta das abelhas em 10 árvores de Nim em florescimento. Essa avaliação foi realizada anotando-se das 7 às 13h, a cada 2 horas, durante 5 minutos, em cada árvore: i. o número de abelhas africanizadas visitantes, ii. o (os) recurso(s) coletado(s), iii. a presença de outros visitantes e iv. os aspectos da biologia floral (antese, receptividade do estigma e odor). Como resultados, constatou-se que as árvores de Nim, nas condições climáticas do município de Picos, florescem e frutificam o ano todo. Essa árvore apresenta artifícios para atrair seus visitantes florais, como a liberação de odor intenso e a disponibilidade de pólen abundante durante o período de observação. Durante o período chuvoso na região, o número de abelhas visitantes (36) foi muito inferior ao período seco (282). Esses insetos permaneceram visitando as flores de Nim durante o período avaliado, com pico de visitação logo no primeiro horário de observação (7 às 8h), sendo o pólen o principal recurso coletado. Concluiu-se que as abelhas africanizadas visitam as flores de Nim para a coleta de recursos florais (pólen), que podem compor a dieta das colônias principalmente durante o período de escassez de flores no campo.

Author(s):  
Maria Anna Pabst

In addition to the compound eyes, honeybees have three dorsal ocelli on the vertex of the head. Each ocellus has about 800 elongated photoreceptor cells. They are paired and the distal segment of each pair bears densely packed microvilli forming together a platelike fused rhabdom. Beneath a common cuticular lens a single layer of corneagenous cells is present.Ultrastructural studies were made of the retina of praepupae, different pupal stages and adult worker bees by thin sections and freeze-etch preparations. In praepupae the ocellar anlage consists of a conical group of epidermal cells that differentiate to photoreceptor cells, glial cells and corneagenous cells. Some photoreceptor cells are already paired and show disarrayed microvilli with circularly ordered filaments inside. In ocelli of 2-day-old pupae, when a retinogenous and a lentinogenous cell layer can be clearly distinguished, cell membranes of the distal part of two photoreceptor cells begin to interdigitate with each other and so start to form the definitive microvilli. At the beginning the microvilli often occupy the whole width of the developing rhabdom (Fig. 1).


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Wei ◽  
Fred C. Dyer
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2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-391
Author(s):  
Mohd Asif Khan ◽  
Shashi Bhooshan Tiwari ◽  
Himanshu Gupta ◽  
Huma Noor

Since ancient time, herbal drugs were highly used in the prevention and cure of various human illnesses. In India, Azadirachta indica being commonly known as Neem or Margosa is one of the multi-functional trees; belonging to Meliaceae family. In 1992, the US National Academy of Sciences was published a report entitled ‘Neem- a tree for solving global problems’. It is still considered as ‘village dispensary’ throughout the India. There are two species of Azadirachta which have been investigated; Azadirachta indica that is found in the Indian subcontinent and Azadirachta excelsa Kack that is homegrown to Indonesia and Philippines. A large number of pharmacologically active substances have been identified and isolated from the different parts of neem including azadirachtin, meliacin, gedunin, salanin, nimbin, valassin and various other components which are derived from these main compounds. Many different studies have been evaluated and authenticated for its various traditional and pharmacological activities like itching, leprosy, wound healing, spermicidal, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal, antidiabetic and analgesic etc. In the beginning of 1979, patenting on neem was started by CSIR to separate the active compounds from neem oil. Its great implantation fights with soil erosion, global warming, deforestations and desertification world-wide. In 2002, World Neem Conference raised the neem tree as an industrial or commercial plant. This review is going to explore comprehensively; traditional, pharmacological potential along with patenting, environmental & industrial significant of various parts of neem tree with safety concerns.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Sadam Sulaiman Indabo ◽  
Rufai Zakari

Dermestes maculatus is a major pest of stored fish in Nigeria, fish is preserved with highly persistent synthetic chemicals. There have been an increasing effort at developing plant-based toxicants that are environmentally friendly. Therefore, this study was conducted to screen the leaf extract of Azadirachta indica for phytochemical constituents. The efficacy of the methanolic leaf extract of the plant against D. maculatus was also evaluated. The leaves of A. indica were obtained, processed and taken to laboratory for methanolic extraction. Phytochemical screening was carried out to identify saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, steroids, cardiac glycosides, glycosides, triterpenes and carbohydrates using standard procedure.  Both clean and infested samples of smoke-dried Clarias gariepinus were purchased from Sabon Gari Market, Zaria. The infested samples were used as initial source of D. maculatus larvae. Range finding test was carried out prior to the bioassay. During the bioassay, clean un-infested fish samples were weighed and introduced into kilner jars and respective dosages of 0.2g, 0.4g, 0.6g and 0.8g of extract were added. Another set of fish samples without the extract were maintained as control. The experiment was arranged in Completely Randomized Design with three replicates. Fifteen larvae of D. maculatus were introduced into both treated and control containers and covered. Mortality was recorded after 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours. Data obtained revealed an increase in mortality with increasing dose and time. Mortality ranged from 1.67 to 11.00. Therefore, leaf extract of A. indica should be incorporated in the development of larvicide against D. maculatus.   


2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
А.В. СПРЫГИН ◽  
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Ю.Ю. БАБИН ◽  
Е.М. ХАНБЕКОВА ◽  
Л.Е. РУБЦОВА ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (05) ◽  
pp. 20218-20223
Author(s):  
I Ketut Arnawa ◽  
I Wayan Runa ◽  
I Made Sukerta ◽  
Putu Sri Astuti ◽  
Dan Luh Kadek Budi Martini

The main purpose for the application of science and technology for livestock group of cow, is to form a group of skilled and professional livestock, as vaccinators, can take advantage of Azadirachta indica leaves a plant insecticide, apply a good cage sanitation, can produce organic fertilizer from feces of cow, can treat hay as feed to good nutritional value. The method used is education and training. Activity results obtained, that 10 percent of members of the group have managed to become vaccinators cadres, able to implement good sanitation stables, feces of cow (Stomoxys calsitrans) can process technology with EM4 into organic fertilizer and can process the rice straw with urea spraying method, to produce feed hay to the value of good nutrition for growing cattle.


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