Many organisms consume honeydew to meet their energy requirements. Some species of stingless bees also consume honeydew secreted by hemipterans. In this study we describe the ecological relationships among stingless bees, ants, and the whitefly [Aleurothrixus aepim (Goeldi)]. In order to do so, we made 30-min observations twice a day, carried out once a week for four weeks in the month of April 2009, in a cassava plantation (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in Valença in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our results show no necessary dependence between the bees and A. aepim. The presence of ants help protect whiteflies from their natural enemies, A. aepim may be benefited by this interaction and thereby increase their evolutionary success. Int...
The insect-plant interactions are derived from the overlap of the adaptive radiation period of both ...
This study demonstrates that stingless bees (Apidae, Hymenoptera) amount to approximately 70% of all...
1. Protection mutualisms between ants and honeydew-producing insects influence arthropod food webs b...
We investigated the interaction between the honeydew-producing whitefly Aleurothrixus aepim and tend...
We investigated the interaction between the honeydew-producing whitefly Aleurothrixus aepim and tend...
The presence of aggregates of A. reticulatum on Bauhinia has been reported, but the insects were mai...
The whiteflies are tending by ants, which give protection and dispersion make the control of those s...
The notion that tending ants provide protection to honeydew-producing hemipterans is widely accepted...
Trophobiont insects are of general interest to behavioral ecology due to the fact that the outcomes ...
<p>Ants commonly participate simultaneously in mutualisms with honeydew-producing hemipterans and ex...
Trophobiosis between ants and homopterans is widely known. Nevertheless, this interaction can also h...
Interactions between ants and hemipterans (Auchenorryncha e Sternorryncha) are important to understa...
The food niche and the interactions between different groups of bees and plants can be studied, in d...
Este trabalho teve como objetivo a comunicação química em insetos sociais e em particular de abelhas...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do...
The insect-plant interactions are derived from the overlap of the adaptive radiation period of both ...
This study demonstrates that stingless bees (Apidae, Hymenoptera) amount to approximately 70% of all...
1. Protection mutualisms between ants and honeydew-producing insects influence arthropod food webs b...
We investigated the interaction between the honeydew-producing whitefly Aleurothrixus aepim and tend...
We investigated the interaction between the honeydew-producing whitefly Aleurothrixus aepim and tend...
The presence of aggregates of A. reticulatum on Bauhinia has been reported, but the insects were mai...
The whiteflies are tending by ants, which give protection and dispersion make the control of those s...
The notion that tending ants provide protection to honeydew-producing hemipterans is widely accepted...
Trophobiont insects are of general interest to behavioral ecology due to the fact that the outcomes ...
<p>Ants commonly participate simultaneously in mutualisms with honeydew-producing hemipterans and ex...
Trophobiosis between ants and homopterans is widely known. Nevertheless, this interaction can also h...
Interactions between ants and hemipterans (Auchenorryncha e Sternorryncha) are important to understa...
The food niche and the interactions between different groups of bees and plants can be studied, in d...
Este trabalho teve como objetivo a comunicação química em insetos sociais e em particular de abelhas...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do...
The insect-plant interactions are derived from the overlap of the adaptive radiation period of both ...
This study demonstrates that stingless bees (Apidae, Hymenoptera) amount to approximately 70% of all...
1. Protection mutualisms between ants and honeydew-producing insects influence arthropod food webs b...