angustula the greater pollen adherence was in the head and thorax. barrocoloradensis, avocado pollen adheres mainly to the legs while in T. These bees stood out for having greater specificity in their pollen load, on surveying the insect body areas where they transport pollen. mellifera has the highest diversity and abundance in its pollen load, the stingless bees together transported about half of the available avocado pollen (47.53%). Bees carried pollen from 18 botanical families, the most frequent were: Asteraceae (30.08%), Lauraceae (28.02%) and Urticaceae (19.49%). aequatoriana Camargo (32%) and Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille) (17.65%). Thirteen families of Hymenoptera were recorded, among them, three bee species of the Meliponini tribe: Scaptotrigona barrocoloradensis (Schwarz) (37%), Partamona cf. Besides Apis mellifera, a wide diversity of floral visitors was found in the cultivar studied. Hymenoptera richness did not differ significantly between flowering periods. 2014), randomly selecting four trees for the sampling and changing them every week. The research was carried out on a single plot of land on a farm during two consecutive flowering periods (Aug-Sep.
This study proposed to determine hymenopteran floral visitor fauna and potential pollinators of the Hass avocado cultivar in Colombia. Hymenoptera, especially bees, play a fundamental role in increasing the fruitiness and quality of the avocado through proper pollination.
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