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Stingless bees of Costa Rica
(Springer, 2012-11-19)
The keeping of stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) or meliponiculture is carried out in a rustic and traditional way in Costa Rica. This is an activity present in several regions of the country, especially among the ...
Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect
(Springer, 2012-11-19)
There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, ...
VIII Congreso Mesoamericano de Abejas Nativas: Biología, Cultura y Uso Sostenible, 26 al 31 de agosto de 2013
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2013)
El congreso presenta los siguientes ejes temáticos: ecología de abejas nativas y polinización; propiedades y composición de mieles de abejas sin aguijón; biología, manejo y reproducción de abejas nativas; sistemática, ...
Partial or total replacement of commercial concentrate with on-farm-grown mulberry forage: effects on lamb growth and feeding costs
(Springer Nature, 2017-01-23)
Replacing commercial concentrate with mulberry foliage was evaluated in a feeding trial lasting 126 days. Forty-eight weaned male Pelibuey lambs (20.6 ± 0.80 kg of BW) were randomly allocated to four groups: (1) supplementing ...
Root-lesion nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus (Nematoda: Pratylenchidae) from Costa Rica with molecular identification of P. gutierrezi and P. panamaensis topotypes
(Springer, 2016-02-17)
Root-lesion nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus are among the most damaging nematodes for crop and ornamental plants worldwide. There are about 75 described species in this genus with a wide host range, but a difficult ...
Molecular characterization and distribution of the needle nematode Longidorus laevicapitatus Williams, 1959 (Nematoda: Longidoridae) in Costa Rica
(Springer, 2016-06-25)
Correct identification of Longidorus species in Costa Rica is essential to establish appropriate control strategies for preventing the spread of these nematodes. Nematode surveys conducted in the rainy seasons from 2013 ...
A new dagger nematode, Xiphinema tica n. sp. (Nematoda: Longidoridae), from Costa Rica with updating of the polytomous key of Loof and Luc (1990)
(Springer, 2017-05-15)
A new dagger nematode, Xiphinema tica n.
sp., is described and illustrated from several populations extracted from soil associated with several crops and wild plants in Costa Rica. The new dagger nematode is
characterised ...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 and PM10 atmospheric particles in the Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica: Sources, temporal and spatial variations
(Elsevier, 2017-03)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrations in PM10 and PM2.5 particles were measured at 14 monitoring sites (12 for PM10 and 2 for PM2.5), located in the Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica, from January to November ...
An insight into the antibiofilm properties of Costa Rican stingless bee honeys
(Journal of Wound Care, 2017-04-05)
Our objective is to examine the the antibiofilm properties of stingless bee honeys. Meliponini honeys from Costa Rica were examined along with Medihoney as a reference. All honeys were submitted to a screening composed of ...
Evaluación de corredores biológicos en Costa Rica: estructura de paisaje y procesos de conectividad fragmentación
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-04-21)
En el planeta, durante los últimos años, los corredores biológicos han proliferado como respuesta al proceso acelerado de fragmentación de los ecosistemas naturales. Basada en esta estrategia, Costa Rica desde la década ...