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Stingless bees and their adaptations to extreme environments
Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2019Nearly half of all terrestrial tropical ecosystems around the globe comprise dry forests, characterised through elevated temperatures all year round, and short rainy seasons at irregular intervals. The consequent water deficit over several consecutive months limits the availability of floral resources to often very brief and unpredictable periods ...
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1988
Bombinae and Meliponinae are the only reasonably close relatives of honeybees. Since Meliponinae have many biological characteristics in common with Apinae (storage of honey, production and use of wax, perennial colonies of sometimes considerable size, division of labor), and since workers of some of the (bigger) species at first glance greatly ...
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Bombinae and Meliponinae are the only reasonably close relatives of honeybees. Since Meliponinae have many biological characteristics in common with Apinae (storage of honey, production and use of wax, perennial colonies of sometimes considerable size, division of labor), and since workers of some of the (bigger) species at first glance greatly ...
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THE ROLE OF STINGLESS BEES IN CROP POLLINATION
Annual Review of Entomology, 1999▪ Abstract Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are common visitors to flowering plants in the tropics, but evidence for their importance and effectiveness as crop pollinators is lacking for most plant species. They are known to visit the flowers of ∼90 crop species. They were confirmed to be effective and important pollinators of 9 species.
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Flavonoids in Stingless-Bee and Honey-Bee Honeys
2012Both stingless-bee honey and Apis mellifera honey contain flavonoids that originate from nectar, pollen, and plant resins collected by bees. Such flavonoids indicate the botanical and geographical origins of honey and have associated health benefits.
Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán +2 more
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Beneficial molecules for bee colony nutrition and health are also nutritional and medicinal for humans consuming bee products. Stingless bee species are a source of entomological variability in the honey and pollen they produce, besides the plants they forage and the microbial associations receiving particular attention in classic microbiology, food ...
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Detecting adulteration of stingless bee honey using untargeted 1H NMR metabolomics with chemometrics
Food Chemistry, 2022Baharudin Ibrahim +2 more
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Taxonomy and Diversity of the Stingless Bees
2018The two species of Melipona present in the Yucatan Peninsula. Left M. (Melikerria) beecheii and right M. (Melipona) yucatanica.
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Stingless Bees: A Historical Perspective
2012Stingless bees are social insects that have existed for over 100 million years. They are found in tropical and subtropical zones around the world. Until the introduction to the Americas of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, stingless bees were the main source of cerumen and honey and therefore played a significant role in native civilisations.
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