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Discrimination of honeys produced by Tanzanian stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) based on physicochemical properties and sugar profiles

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023
Honey composition vary according to floral origin and bee species from which it is produced. Understanding the composition of honey is essential for guaranteeing its quality and authenticity, and revealing its potential benefits.
Christopher Alphonce Mduda, Juma Mahmud Hussein, Masoud Hadi Muruke   +2 more
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The Antibacterial Potential of Honeydew Honey Produced by Stingless Bee (Heterotrigona itama) against Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Antibiotics, 2020
Scientific studies about the antibacterial effects of honeydew honey produced by the stingless bee are very limited. In this study, the antibacterial activities of 46 blossom and honeydew honeys produced by both honey bees and stingless bees were ...
Wen-Jie Ng, Nam-Weng Sit, Peter Aun-Chuan Ooi, Kah-Yaw Ee, Tuck-Meng Lim   +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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Antioxidant-Based Medicinal Properties of Stingless Bee Products: Recent Progress and Future Directions

Biomolecules, 2020
Stingless bees are a type of honey producers that commonly live in tropical countries. Their use for honey is being abandoned due to its limited production.
Mohammad A. I. Al-Hatamleh, Jennifer C. Boer, Kirsty L. Wilson, Magdalena Plebanski, Rohimah Mohamud, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa   +5 more
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Analysing stingless bee garden design for urban farming in Kelantan, Malaysia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
The benefits of stingless bee honey for health found in various studies increase the demand for these apiculture activities to grow. However, the production of stingless bee honey requires specific garden design considerations according to the species ...
Wan Mohamad Wan Saiful Nizam, Hasan Ramly, Hassan Khalilah, Abdul Hamid Nor Hamizah, Ramlee Noorliyana, Yeo Lee Bak, Othmani Nurul Izzati, Mohamed Syahidah Amni, Mohamed Som Sahrudin   +8 more
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A Comparative Characterization of Physicochemical and Antioxidants Properties of Processed Heterotrigona itama Honey from Different Origins and Classification by Chemometrics Analysis

Molecules, 2019
Stingless bee honey produced by Heterotrigona itama from different botanical origins was characterised and discriminated. Three types of stingless bee honey collected from acacia, gelam, and starfruit nectars were analyzed and compared with Apis ...
Sharina Shamsudin, Jinap Selamat, Maimunah Sanny, Shamsul Bahari A.R., Nuzul Noorahya Jambari, Alfi Khatib   +5 more
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Reinventing the Honey Industry: Opportunities of the Stingless Bee

Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2018
Honey is uniquely produced by honeybees (Apis sp.) and stingless bees (Meliponini sp.) and exhibits tremendous medicinal properties such as antimicrobial, anticarcinogen and antioxidant. However, it has not been included as a mainstream approach to disease management and has been disregarded in the modern pharmaceutical era. The stingless bee, which is
Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli, Yaacob, Nik Soriani, Sulaiman, Siti Amrah   +2 more
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Stingless Bee Honey, the Natural Wound Healer: A Review [PDF]

Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, 2017
<b><i>Background:</i></b> The stingless bee is a natural type of bee that exists in almost every continent. The honey produced by this bee has been widely used across time and space. The distinctive feature of this honey is that it is stored naturally in the pot (cerumen), thus contributing to its beneficial properties ...
Mohd Azri, Abd Jalil, Abdul Razak, Kasmuri, Hazrina, Hadi   +2 more
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The diversity of honey bee and entrance characteristics of stingless bees nests at a meliponiculture in Batu Gadang, West Sumatra [PDF]

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Honey bees, consist of true honey bee bees and stingless bees, are common in Indonesia. This study aimed to do the inventory on honey bee species as well as to study the entrance characteristics of stingless bee nests that exist at the meliponiculture in
Sari Melda Yunita, Herwina Henny, Tan Suat Cheng, Mairawita Mairawita, Janra Muhammad Nazri, Jasmi Jasmi   +5 more
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Within-bloom shift in abundance of a wild pollinator mediates pollen deposition rates to blueberry

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2023
Intra-seasonal variation in abiotic and biotic conditions can have profound consequences for pollinator community compositions and foraging movement, with flow-on effects upon pollination services.
Ulrika Samnegård, Liam K. Kendall, Martin E. Brummell, Maurizio Rocchetti, Karen Cristine Bezerra da Silva Santos, Henrik G. Smith, Romina Rader   +6 more
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