wasps

Weather variables affecting the behaviour of insect flower visitors and main pollinators of Erythroxylum myrsinites Martius (Erythroxylaceae)

Our results demonstrate the influence of weather variables on flower visiting insects and suggest the importance of native wasps in pollen transport and potential pollination.

Pollen vector wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae), Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brazil

The wasps Polistes versicolor, P. simillimus, Polybia sericea and P. ignobilis had large quantities of pollen on their body, beyond high values of dominance and constancy, proving its importance on pollen transportation and potential to act as pollinators of Schinus terebinthifolius.