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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 +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 +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 +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Journal of Toxicology, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Honey is a natural product of bees, and its chemical composition depends on the nectar sources of the surrounding flora as well as environmental factors. However, keeping hives in areas polluted with heavy metals can affect the quality of bee products such as honey.
Nurul Hamizah Salman +6 more
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2023 Melipona crinita is widely used in meliponiculture for the production of honey, in several places in the Amazon. Thus, the aim of this study was: (i) determine the seasonal characteristics of the pollen collected by M.
Francisco Cildomar da Silva Correia +1 more
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Aspects of meliponiculture with emphasis on the genus Scaptotrigona [PDF]
, 2022 Meliponiculture is the rational exploitation of stingless bees, in which different species of bees are exploited. This diversity ensures differences in morphological and biological aspects, nesting habits, resource gathering behaviors, defense and ...
Fernandes Gonçalves Benites, Alessandra +4 more
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TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF MELIPONICULTURE IN BUKIT SANDY, CIMENYAN, BANDUNG
, 2023 Propolis produced by stingless bees has a high economic value in Indonesia. Bukit Sandy is a plantation area in Cimenyan, Bandung which is famous for citrus picking tourism and has the potential to be developed for meliponiculture.
Abduh, Muhammad Yusuf +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2020 This study aimed to identify the pollen grains found in honeys of Melipona (Michmelia) seminigra pernigra Moure & Kerr and Melipona (Melikerria) interrupta Latreille in two communities of the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, Lower Amazon (Pará ...
Rogério Ribeiro de Souza +4 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Meliponines, popularly known as stingless bees, present a great diversity of species widely distributed in tropical regions. Some species are rationally reared to obtain bee products like honey, pollen and wax, and most of them are important pollinators ...
JÂNIO A. FELIX, BRENO M. FREITAS
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