IMPORTANCE OF LEGUMINOUS TO DETERMINATE THE TYPE OF HONEY IN ARGENTINA

Original in Spanish

Leguminous have a great importance in the contribution of nectar to the Argentinean honeys. From alfalfas and clovers, which are very coveted and typical in the "Pampa Húmeda", to the "algarrobo" tree (different Prosopis sp. species), characteristic of the natural forests in dry areas: from the northern province of Formosa to the south of La Pampa province, with their exclusive species: the "Caldén" (Prosopis caldenia).

Published on May of 2005

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EDITOR WORDS:
Forgetfuls...

We are already approaching to the next Api-Expo Río Cuarto 2005.
When we read these pages, the "XIIIª Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Center of the country" will have already lapsed, and there will be many comments about this, that we hope they will be favourables. The previous edition of "Río Cuarto", in 2003, we had very high prices of our honey, speculating with the best honey of the world in our stores.
Shortly after and just a year ago, we clamored for somebody who would defende that same honey that, it seemed, nobody wanted to consume.
Today, after so much noise, we see that the exported volumes did not fall down over the normal fluctuations of this production very susceptible to the weather conditions.
What has changed? The fall of the price and the disadvantages of payment conditions are what we see immediately. Behind that and manifesting an historical and structural constant of our country, the Argentinean Beekeeping, which some years ago only (contributed positive figures to the commercial scale), now, as so many other primary productions, it begins "to balance", selling cheaper and buying scrap analytic technology that is not good for us to produce more and better, that will be obsolete in some years and that it accentuates our character of subjugated and underdeveloped. Without having into account other superfluous expenses of the State, or some other credit organism that then we will pay among everybody, for each HPLC/MS/MS that enters into the country (this one which is good to detect the presence of insignificant nitrofurane traces in our honey) the producers should embark more than twenty containers (20 Tn each) of the best honey to compensate that deficit. It is the same history of the last 40 years with the diary products, the seeds, chemicals, etc. . It makes us proud have these pages to offer you, and to show to the world, something of the moral reserves and intellectual that it still lasts among us and in spite of us...
Thank you for being interested in the variety of topics that we deal with. At first we hope this edition gratifies and stimulates you, and it informs you about something you didn't know and it will be better if it is also useful for you. Rereading Espacio Apícola 57 Editorial will be enough to reaffirm our way.
The Director
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NOSEMA: An invisible illness. Its monitoring importance.
Lic. Edgarlo Gabriel Sarlo.
Mar del Plata. Buenos Aires. Argentina
egsarlo@mdp.edu.ar
Nosema is an illness caused by a parasite called Nosema apis, which is invisible for us due to its size and symtoms, up to the moment it is impossible to control.
It has in its life cycle a resistance structure denominated spore, which the same as American foul brood, tolerates external conditions what allows to find it in the floor of the beehive, honeycombs, supers, wax and inner covers, waiting for a bee (nurse bee generally) in their desire of cleaning ingests it so thay the bee get infected.
When it is ingested by a bee, it goes to the later half of the ventricle (an structur of its digestive system) whose main function is the digestion of the grains of pollen, the only source of vitamins and proteins.
When the spore germinate it projects with internal pressure a kind of a tube (polar filament) with such a force that if it reaches a cell of the ventricle, it penetrates and infects it.
Immediately it begins to use the resources of the cell for its multiplication, the same as the virus make up to they die, in that moment the cell dies and new spores are liberated to the digestive canal in order to infect new cells or to pass to the dissemination phase by means of the grounds of the bee, the main spores reserve.
The work, accompanied by the graphics for the analysis of the results and pictures taken during the investigation, describes the illness and its symptoms in order to think about the following points:
- How can I control this illness?
- MONITORING OBJECTIVES
- Description of Materials and Method.
- Analysis of the results and effects. (Remarkable changes from a season to other).
- CONCLUSIONS: There is no a curve in which we can turn as a way to cure the illnessbecause it is influenced by the climatic situation. - Which are the advantages to monitor?
Edgardo Gabriel Sarlo, Graduate in Biological Sciences. Expert National Beekeeper. Sanitary inspector SENASA Nº 2-151. Laboratory of Arthropods, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, UNMP.

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ARTIFICIAL FEEDING: Consequences of bad practices of handling in the Quality of Honey. Griselda Jullier Dr.. Santa Fe. Argentina
josevenica@arnet.com.ar


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Honeys from the Center of the Entre Ríos province: Botanical and Geographical origin. Guillermina Fagúndez En. and Marta Caccavari Dr.. Diamante. Entre Ríos province. Argentina

The pollen contained on 38 samples of honey was analyzed, coming from the central area of the county of Entre Ríos province. The native species of this area includes the xerofilus plants for the most part (semi-dry) of the Phitography area of the Spinal one and in smaller proportion, the Pampas phitography area.

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 LEGUMINOUS - Leguminosae: Native and Exotic from the Center of Argentina used by the bees.
Engineers Cesar Augusto Bianco, María Elena Faricelli and Teresa Amalia Kraus.
UNRC. Río Cuarto. Córdoba province. Argentina.
cbianco@ayv.unrc.edu.ar
Acacia caven
In this magazine several works have been presented referred to the botanical and geographical origin of the honeys, where the grains of pollen act as true geographical markers.
Among the numerous species visited by the bees according to the region of the country figure the Leguminous family (or Fabaceae) species of Prosopis, Prosopidastrum, Lotus and Medicago. It is very important the native and exotic species of this family in the economy of the beehive, in this article is presented the season and the characters of the grains of pollen of the same ones fundamentally with pictures of the plants, its branches with flowers and its pollen.
- WOODY species
- "Espinillo" (Acacia caven)
- "Tusca" (Acacia aroma)
- "Visco" (Acacia visco)
- "Brea" (Cercidium praecox)
- "Cina-cina" (Parkinsonia aculeata)
- "Chañar" (Geoffroea decorticans)
- "Algarrobo blanco" (Prosopis alba var. alba)
- "Caldén" (Prosopis caldenia)
- "Algarrobo dulce" (Prosopis flexuosa var. flexuosa)
Among the exotic species, they stand out the following ones:
- "White acacia" (Robinia pseudo-acacia)
- "Sófora" (Sophora japonica)
- "Black acacia" (Gleditsia triacanthos)
SHRUB Species
"Garabato" (Acacia furcatispina)
- "Pichana" (Senna aphylla)
- "Pichana Espinosa" (Senna acantoclada)
HERBACEOUS species
- "Alfalfa" (Medicago sativa)
- Melilotus albus
- Melilotus officinalis
- "White clover" (Trifolium repens)
- "Trebol de cuernitos" (Lotus corniculatus)
- "Soya" (Glicine max)
- "Vicia" (Vicia sativa)
- "Vicia peluda" (Vicia villosa)
MONOFLORAL HONEYS
BRIEF FINAL CONSIDERATIONS

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HONEYS FROM SANTA FE PROVINCE. Dra. Griselda Jullier. SANTA FE. Argentina

Der. Dra. Griselda Jullier
The province of Santa Faith has a lot of ecosystems, many of whose characteristic vegetable species cohabit in vast transition areas, making them attractive for the beekeeping to have a quite lingering floral chain.
Contrary to other provinces where the university seems to lead the investigations toward characterize the regional beekeeping products, in Santa Faith this activity had initiate mainly in the Provincial Laboratory of Food Control. From there the Biochemical Griselda Jullier goes us bringing works like the present that, they guide us in the characterization of the different regions of the province and the tendencies of its production.
The present work includes:
HONEYS OF THE COAST
INTRODUCTION
Presentation of the area: Geographical location
OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT WORK
METHOD
MONOFLORAL HONEYS
Mytraceae (Eucaliptus sp); Boraginaceae (Echium Plantagineum, Compositae (Baccharis polyfolia)
Next the listing of accompanying Pollen present in the samples of honey, the work indicates the percentage of its presence, included the appearances.
The sugars total reducers were also determined
CONCLUSIONS
PROPOSAL
GRATEFULNESS
Bioq. Griselda Jullier
University Technician in Beekeeping Administration and Production.

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