LAGES, Mateus Cardoso da Costa.
Abstract:
The present paperwork aimed to study the toxic effect of the M/mofa vem/cosa Benth
anthers macerate., popularly known as Jurema-Branca, about worker bees of Ap/s
me///lona. popularly known as africanized bees. The study was made in the Enthomoly
Laboratory of the Science and Agroalimentary Technology Center - CCTA, Federal
University of Campina Grande - UFCG, Pombal Campus. lo the execution of the work, it
was collected flowers of verrucosa Benth., that were put to dry for a period of 48 hours,
separating the anthers of the other structures of the flower and macerating them. Then,
using the "Candí' diet, it was added three concentrations: 0,25%; 0.50% e 1,0% of the
pollens macerate. Young bees of 24 hours of life were used being distributed in 12 boxes
of wood containing 20 bees each, totalizing 240 bees. For each concentration and for the
witness it was used three repetitions, the boxes were conditioned in B.O.D. greenhouse,
under ideal conditions of survival to the bees, to know: temperature of 28 to 32'C and
humidity of 70%. After 24 hours it was made the first counting.of dead worker bees,
removing the boxes that had dead bees for the period of 21 days. The. resulta were
analyzed through the software Prisma 3.0, which also served to the confection of the
graphics. By the results it was obtained that the Jurema-Branca may cause the death of
the worker bees, because the average longevity considering all the concentrations was of
only 6 days, by the step that in the witness the lifetime was of 14,5 days, in average.
