Individual foraging, activity level and longevity in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii in Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) [PDF]
, 1998 Foraging behaviour of individually marked workers of Melipona beecheii (Meliponinae) was monitored in Costa Rica to investigate individual specialisation for different materials and how this influences foraging longevity.
Biesmeijer, J.C., Tóth, E.
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BMC GenomicsBackground The highly eusocial stingless bees are crucial pollinators of native and agricultural ecosystems. Nevertheless, genomic studies within this bee tribe remain scarce. We present the genome assembly of the stingless bee Melipona bicolo r.
Natalia de Souza Araujo +3 more
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New horizons on stingless beekeeping (apidae, Meliponini). [PDF]
, 2015 A criação de abelhas sem ferrão, ou meliponicultura, é uma atividade antiga, especialmente nos Neotrópicos. Atualmente, especialmente no Brasil, ela experimenta um novo florescimento, sendo amplamente praticada em várias regiões, pela criação de diversas
CONTRERA, F. A. L. +2 more
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Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees
Environmental Entomology, 2018 Although the importance of bees as the pollinators responsible for maintaining gene flow for many native and cultivated plants in ecosystems around the world is recognized, much of their biodiversity and behavior remains to be discovered. Stingless bees are considered key pollinators for several plant species in tropical and subtropical ecosystems and ...
Karina O Cham +16 more
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Stingless bee honey and its potential value: a systematic review
Food Research, 2017 Modern science has found that most traditional practice of using stingless bee honey has great potential as an added value in modern medicine and considered to have a higher medicinal value than other bee species.
Yaacob, M., +3 more
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Description of an ancient social bee trapped in amber using diagnostic radioentomology [PDF]
, 2018 The application of non-invasive imaging technologies using X-radiation (diagnostic radioentomology, ‘DR') is demonstrated for the study of amber-entombed social bees. Here, we examine the external and internal morphology of an Early Miocene (Burdigalian)
Engel, M. +6 more
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SociobiologyPollen loads gathered by honeybees and pot-pollen stored by stingless bees are functional foods with commercial potential. The botanical origin influences the physicochemical composition of the corbicular pollen, Apis mellifera’s bee bread, and the ...
Lendra Schuastz Breda +4 more
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Polinização de pepino, Cucumis sativus L. (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae), pelas abelhas sem ferrão Scaptotrigona aff. depilis moure e Nannotrigona testaceicornis lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) em casas de vegetação [PDF]
When for a successful fruit development the fertilization of flowers is necessary, bees can be used as crop-pollinators in greenhouses. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of the stingless bees Scaptotrigona aff.
BEGO, Luci R. +2 more
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Nesting Pattern Preferences of Stingless Bee, Trigona Iridipennis Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Jnanabharathi Campus, Karnataka, India [PDF]
, 2013 The patterning aspects of nests are receiving increased attention in nature, so we have studied it in human-dwelling environments involving repeated spatio-temporal mold of pattern. Different criteria such as nesting sites, orientations, nest characters,
Jayaprakash, . +2 more
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Visual physiology of Australian stingless bees
Journal of Comparative Physiology AAbstractStingless bees engage in a range of visually guided behaviours that require relatively high spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity. Although the eyes of honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, and sweat bees have been studied extensively, there is limited knowledge of stingless bees.
Bhavana Penmetcha +4 more
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