The presence of bees on cultures with commercial value during flowering is important to ensure the cross-pollination, when necessary, but also to increase the production of fruits and seeds. This work aimed to identify flowers' visiting bees on orange and tangerine orchards in Salinas - MG. The work was leaded on Santa Isabel experimental farm of the Federal Agro-technical School of Salinas - MG, on orange orchards (Citrus sinensis) with pear, bahia and baianinha varieties in the spacing of 5,0 x 6,0, and on tangerine orchards (C. reticulate) using poncã variety in the spacing of 5,0 x 5,0. The sampling of visiting bees from orange and tangerine orchards was made during the main flowerings, between August and October. The bees that visited the flowers between 06:00 a.m. and 06:00 p.m. were collected. 5045 bees were collected with richness of 12 species in orange and 1428 bees with richness of 20 species in tangerine. The species of bees with major predominance and dominance in all sampled times were Apis mellifera and Trigona spinipes (orange) and Apis mellifera, Trigona spinipes e Tetragonisca angustula (tangerine).
Apidae; Community structure; Rutaceae
