Plants bee flora

Plants bee flora

The pollination activity is equivalent to the fertilization of plants. Poultry, insects, Beetles, butterflies, ants, bats, and due to wind and rain, are pollinators. But none does it with such mastery as bees.

It is true that for this, bees and flowers has a very close relationship, great interdependence. Some plant species depend on specific pollinators, who have reached the highest degree of adaptation to fulfill this activity. One example is the carpenter bees, that are essential for the pollination of passion fruit: its size and shape with fluttering over the flower, It causes the pollen grains may come off the anthers (organ of the flower that produces pollen) and reaching the stigmata ( organ of the flower that receives pollens and forwards them to the ovary through the pistil).

Interesting say that the bees do not visit flowers for the purpose of pollinating itself, but with the goal of removing flower elements that compose their food: Pollen, Fonte protein; and nectar, with which it produces honey. When visiting the plant to do this, unwittingly carries the pollen from flower to flower, fertilizing them and ensuring the maintenance of biodiversity.

In the world there are over 20 thousand species of bees, It is about 5 thousand just in Brazil, country with one of the planet's biggest bio-diversity. So, protect bees is also an act of protection of flora, which depends directly on ecosystem pollination services.

Currently two factors has produced a serious problem for feeding bees: extensive deforestation, which both reduces the nesting areas as food sources for bees; as growth areas of agricultural monoculture, which considerably reduces what is called the bee pasture.

Therefore, plant bee flora flowers is so important to keep the balance of the environment, ensuring food for bees.

In the file below, a study of ESALQ – University of USP, It produced a fairly comprehensive list of plants visited by bees.

http://www.esalq.usp.br/biblioteca/PUBLICACAO/Serie Produtor Rural Especial - Plantas Visitadas por Abelhas e Polonizacao/Abelhas.pdf