Riqueza e abundância de abelhas nativas na mata ciliar do afluente do Rio Paraíba.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the richness and abundance of native bees in the stream of affluent salting of Rio Paraiba. An excerpt with riparian forest preserved, with species of native flora and other degraded riparian stretch, with border, saline bed. The study area is located in the Eastern Cariri micro region and the Greater Region of Borborema, in the municipality of Alcantil, State of Paraiba. Twelve have been collected bees on flowers with 18 plant species belonging to 8 families among which you registered 491 individuals of 34 species of bees, the 5 families, where the Apidae and was the best represented, registering 391 individuals of 19 species, especially solitary bees and not corbiculate while Halictida and obtained 55 specimens of 5 species of bee species assembly site, with a total of 491 bees collected.