How
bees collect resin to produce Green Propolis
Bees visit the plants, cut the vegetative apex with their jaws. Then, they carry
the resin together with leaf fragments, glandular trichomes, non-glandular trichomes,
crystals of oxalate of calcium, secretory disks and pollen grains that determined
the vegetal species visited.
The green propolis produced in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) was characterized
by means of microscopic analysis of its sediment. In it we could find glandular
trichomes, non-glandular trichomes, fragments of epidermis and pollen grains
of Baccharis dracunculifolia. We can see below the visiting of the bees to the
plant in order to collect resin.
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