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Current status of meliponiculture and its cultural importance in the Western Ghats, India

Journal of Apicultural Research, 2022
Literature records indicate that ethnic people from different areas of the Western Ghats practice meliponiculture. However, ethnobiological knowledge and beekeeping practices remain poorly documented. We conducted ethnographic surveys in 6 districts of Karnataka and recorded traditional uses and current practices of meliponiculture from the region.
Chet Prasad Bhatta
exaly   +2 more sources

Flight radius and climatic conditions affect the external activity of stingless bee Melipona rufiventris (Lepeletier, 1836) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2023
The objective of this study was to verify the flight radius and the influence of the climatic season and period of the day on the external activity of Melipona rufiventris bees. The forager bees were released at different distances to evaluate the flight
P. V. D. X. Freitas, P. Faquinello, E. Arnhold, D. A. C. Ferro, R. A. C. Ferro, M. L. G. Lacerda, P. R. S. C. Leite, C. M. Silva Neto   +7 more
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Wing Phenotypic Diversity in Stingless Bees Genera (Apidae: Meliponini) from Ecuador Amazonia [PDF]

Acta Biológica Colombiana
Native stingless bees, Meliponini, are the only social bees that produce honey in addition to honeybees. These bees have been managed in meliponiculture and for crop pollination.
Karen Vanessa Bonilla Farinango, Jonathan Liria Salazar, Claus Rasmussen   +2 more
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Promoting Forage Legume–Pollinator Interactions: Integrating Crop Pollination Management, Native Beekeeping and Silvopastoral Systems in Tropical Latin America

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Major declines of insect pollinators are a worldwide concern. Such losses threaten human food supplies and ecosystem functions. Monocultures of pastures used to feed cattle are among the drivers of insect pollinator declines in Tropical Latin America ...
Manuel Ernesto Narjes Sanchez, Manuel Ernesto Narjes Sanchez, Juan Andrés Cardoso Arango, Stefan Burkart   +3 more
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Stingless bee keeping: Biocultural conservation and agroecological education

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionStingless bee breeding, also called Meliponiculture, has existed for thousands of years in Mesoamerica among a variety of rural and indigenous cultures.
Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya, Ulises Rodríguez Robles, María Luisa Martínez Gutiérrez, Guelmy A. Chan Mutul, Teresita Avilez López, Helda Morales, Bruce G. Ferguson, Jorge A. Mérida Rivas   +7 more
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DNA Barcoding of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Northern Peruvian Forests: A Plea for Integrative Taxonomy

Diversity, 2022
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) are among the most important pollinators of tropical forests. Peru is considered a hotspot of biodiversity of Meliponini, but many areas of this country (e.g., Peruvian Amazon) remain unexplored.
Marilena Marconi, Alessandro Modesti, Leydi Paz Alvarez, Paolo Villegas Ogoña, Agustín Cerna Mendoza, Carlos Daniel Vecco-Giove, Javier Ormeño Luna, Andrea Di Giulio, Emiliano Mancini   +8 more
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Raising native bees: an agroecological pedagogy with roots

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo, 2022
There is a general consensus on the need for agroecological scaling up as an alternative to the crisis generated by the unsustainability of the industrial agriculture model and even more so in the current context of a health pandemic.
Yorlis Luna, Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya, Eric Vides Borrel, Helda Morales, Peter Rosset   +4 more
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Efficiency of trap nests in attracting stingless bees in the central Brazilian Amazon

Acta Amazonica, 2022
Obtaining colonies of stingless bees in the wild for the formation or expansion of meliponaries and other purposes is permitted by law in Brazil using bait containers or trap nests, and other non-destructive methods.
Iris Andrade da CRUZ, Carlos Gustavo NUNES-SILVA, Gislene Almeida CARVALHO-ZILSE   +2 more
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Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico

Biotropica, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 829-838, July 2022., 2022
We found a total of 14 stingless bee species, including two new records for the region. We identified three types of bee assemblages: one in hot lowland climates with tropical dry forest vegetation, one in temperate highland climates with mixed oak‐pine forest vegetation, and one in the warm ecotone with mixed subdeciduous forest vegetation between the
Alejandro Reyes‐Gonzalez, Francisco Mora, Luciana Porter‐Boland, M. Isabel Ramírez, Ek del‐Val   +4 more
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The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers

People and Nature, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 462-480, April 2022., 2022
Abstract Restoring the degraded Atlantic Forest is one of the biggest conservation challenges in Brazil. In a biome with high human presence, understanding the potential for restoration approaches, such as agroforestry, to provide benefits to smallholder farmers and biodiversity is essential in developing equitable restoration strategies.
Yara Shennan‐Farpón, Morena Mills, Aline Souza, Katherine Homewood   +3 more
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