{"id":3291,"date":"2026-06-05T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:16:28","slug":"bees-for-pumpkin-pollination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/bees-for-pumpkin-pollination\/","title":{"rendered":"Abejas para la polinizaci\u00f3n de calabazas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Es tiempo de calabaza: en el hemisferio norte para la siembra, mientras que en el hemisferio sur para la cosecha. Un estudio reciente realizado en Brasil y publicado en Arthropod-Plant Interactions destaca la importancia de las abejas en la polinizaci\u00f3n de las plantas de calabaza, especialmente la especie\u00a0<em>Cucurbita moschata<\/em>. Seg\u00fan los resultados, los principales polinizadores en la regi\u00f3n semi\u00e1rida del noreste de Brasil fueron\u00a0<em>Apis mellifera<\/em>\u00a0y\u00a0<em>Trigona spinipes<\/em>. La actividad de estas abejas influy\u00f3 positivamente en la cuaja, el peso y la calidad del fruto, al tiempo que mejor\u00f3 el potencial antioxidante de las frutas. El estudio aporta m\u00e1s pruebas del papel crucial que desempe\u00f1an las abejas en la polinizaci\u00f3n de cultivos y la productividad agr\u00edcola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Lea el art\u00edculo cient\u00edfico <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11829-025-10211-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study conducted in Brazil and published in\u00a0Arthropod-Plant Interactions\u00a0highlights the importance of bees in the pollination of pumpkin plants, especially the species\u00a0Cucurbita moschata. According to the results, the main pollinators in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil were\u00a0Apis mellifera\u00a0and\u00a0Trigona spinipes. The activity of these bees positively influenced fruit set, weight, and quality, while also enhancing the antioxidant potential of the fruits. The study provides further evidence of the crucial role that bees play in crop pollination and agricultural productivity.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}