<b>Methods to attract and repel Africanize honey bees <em>Apis mellifera</em>, L., to passion fruit (<em>Passiflora edulis flavicarpa flavicarpa</em> Deg.)</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascianimsci.v25i1.2036

Abstract

This experiment was carried out at Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda, Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil, to study Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) attractives and repellents in vitro, in tubes and on passion fruit flowers (Passiflora edulis flavicarpa flavicarpa Deg.). Visiting insects were studied in flowers and also, bait-plants to Africanized honey bees were tested. The products were not effective in attracting and repelling the honey bee in vitro and in tube tests. The chemicals n.octyl.acetato and citronellal were repellent to honey bees and Xylocopa bees on passion fruit flowers. Sunflower (Hellianthus annuus) and cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) flowers can be used to remove Africanized honey bees from passion fruit crops.