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The effects of bee species and vegetation on the antioxidant properties of honeys produced by Afrotropical stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023
Stingless bee honey is widely utilized as a traditional medicine in tropical and subtropical regions. The rich diversity of stingless bees and floral resources in the African tropics presents an opportunity for the production of honeys with diverse ...
Christopher Alphonce Mduda, Juma Mahmud Hussein, Masoud Hadi Muruke   +2 more
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Investigation on the Conservation Consciousness of an Important Pollination Insect: Stingless Bee in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park

Redai dili, 2023
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meloponini) play a significant ecological role in tropical and subtropical regions. They have good utilization value in pollination, medicinal applications, and industrial raw materials.
Chen Xin, Zhao Shan, Li Linming, Wu Huazhou, Zhang Zhe, Gao Jinglin, Wang Shijie   +6 more
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The potential neuroprotective effects of stingless bee honey

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023
Tropical Meliponini bees produce stingless bee honey (SBH). Studies have shown beneficial properties, including antibacterial, bacteriostatic, anti-inflammatory, neurotherapeutic, neuroprotective, wound, and sunburn healing capabilities.
Nurdarina Ausi Zulkifli, Z. Hassan, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, W. Azman, Siti Nurma Hanim Hadie, N. Ghani, Anani Aila Mat Zin   +6 more
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Traditional ecological knowledge and non-food uses of stingless bee honey in Kenya’s last pocket of tropical rainforest

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023
Background Stingless bee honey (SBH) is a natural remedy and therapeutic agent traditionally used by local communities across the (sub-)tropics. Forest SBH represents a prime non-timber forest product (NTFP) with a potential to revitalize indigenous ...
Madeleine Héger, Pierre Noiset, K. Nkoba, N. Vereecken   +3 more
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Areas of natural occurrence of melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811(Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the state of Bahia, Brazil. [PDF]

, 2012
The bee Melipona scutellaris is considered the reared meliponine species with the largest distribution in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, with records from the state of Rio Grande do Norte down to the state of Bahia. Considering the importance
ALVES RMO, Bruno A. Souza, CAMARA G, Carlos A.L. Carvalho, CARNEIRO MAA, DUCKE A, IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA VL, KERR WE, KERR WE, KERR WE, LAMARTINE H, LIMA-VERDE L, MARIANO FILHO J, MARTINS C, MORRONE JJP, MOURE JS, NOGUEIRA-NETO P, NUNES LA, OLIVEIRA MHCC, OLIVEIRA RS, ORTIZ-MORA RA, Rogério M.O. Alves, ROUBIK D, ROUBIK DW, SANTOS CMD, SCHWARZ HF, SCHWARZ HF, SILVEIRA FA, Wyratan S. Santos, YANEZ-ORDÓÑEZ O   +29 more
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A Preliminary Study of Chemical Profiles of Honey, Cerumen, and Propolis of the African Stingless Bee Meliponula ferruginea

Foods, 2021
Recently, the honey and propolis of stingless bees have been attracting growing attention because of their health-promoting properties. However, studies on these products of African Meliponini are still very scarce. In this preliminary study, we analyzed
M. Popova, D. Gerginova, B. Trusheva, S. Simova, A. N. Tamfu, O. Ceylan, K. Clark, V. Bankova   +7 more
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Stingless bees (Meliponini): senses and behavior [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2016
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) are by far the largest group of eusocial bees on Earth. Due to the diversity of evolutionary responses to specific ecological challenges, the Meliponini are well suited for comparative studies of the various adaptations to the environment found in highly eusocial bees.
Michael Hrncir, Stefan Jarau, Friedrich G. Barth   +2 more
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Ethnomedicinal uses of stingless bee honey among native communities of Baringo County, Kenya

Scientific African, 2022
Stingless bees live in tropical and subtropical areas around the world, however, stingless bee honey and other products have traditionally been used in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world to treat various diseases since ancient times. Little
Sabella J. Kiprono, Gladys Mengich, Jackline Kosgei, Charles Mutai, Sammy Kimoloi   +4 more
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Deep Divergence and Genomic Diversification of Gut Symbionts of Neotropical Stingless Bees

mBio, 2023
Social bees harbor conserved gut microbiotas that may have been acquired in a common ancestor of social bees and subsequently codiversified with their hosts.
Garance Sarton-Lohéac, Carlos Gustavo Nunes da Silva, Florent Mazel, Gilles Baud, Vincent de Bakker, Sudip Das, Yassine El Chazli, Kirsten Ellegaard, Marc Garcia-Garcera, Natasha Glover, Joanito Liberti, Lorena Nacif Marçal, Aiswarya Prasad, Vincent Somerville, Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Philipp Engel   +15 more
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Stingless bee floral visitation in the global tropics and subtropics

bioRxiv, 2021
Bees play a key role in maintaining healthy terrestrial ecosystems by pollinating plants. Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are a diverse clade of social bees (>500 species) with a pantropical distribution spanning South and Central America, Africa ...
Francisco Garcia Bulle Bueno, Liam K. Kendall, Denise Araujo Alves, Manuel E. Lequerica Támara, T. Heard, T. Latty, Rosalyn Gloag   +6 more
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