Flower-visiting bees collect large quantities of pollen to feed their offspring. Pollen deposited in the bees' transport organs is lost for the flowers' pollination. It has been hypothesised that specific body areas, bees cannot groom, serve as 'safe sites' for pollen transfer between flowers. For the first time, we experimentally demonstrated the position, area and pollen amount of safe sites ...

Triacylglycerols (TAGs), as the main components of edible oils and animal fats, are responsible for nutritional value, organoleptic features technological properties foods; each lipid matrix shows a unique TAG profile which can serve fingerprint to ensure quality authenticity food products. The high complexity many foodstuffs often makes untargeted elucidation challenging task; thus, more effic...

UNLABELLED The people in Mexico still depend upon the use of medicinal plants to treat simple health problems, including those who live in regions like Tlanchinol Hidalgo, where it is still possible to find people who speak the pre-Hispanic Nahua language. This area is surrounded by rain forest, which is more or less well conserved, so ethnopharmacological field studies are quite relevant. The ...