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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]
BIO Web of ConferencesHoney 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 +5 more
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Waste management in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]
, 2014 Waste management is important in insect societies because waste can be hazardous to adults, brood and food stores. The general organization of waste management and the influence of task partitioning, division of labor and age polyethism on waste ...
Hart, Adam G +2 more
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Properties of Honey from Ten species of Peruvian Stingless Bees [PDF]
Natural Product Communications, 2009 Honey produced by ten stingless bee species (Melipona crinita, M. eburnea, M. grandis, M. illota, Nannotrigona melanocera, Partamona epiphytophila, Ptilotrigona lurida, Scaptotrigona polystica, Scaura latitarsis, and Tetragonisca angustula) from Peru has been characterized according to traditional physicochemical standards (color and moisture ...
Rodríguez-Malaver, A. J. +5 more
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Ciência e Natura, 2023 Honey from stingless bees has a physicochemical composition that varies according to the nectar source, climate, and bee species. Due to its unique flavor and aroma, stingless bee honey has become popular; however, the lack of regulation for this type of
Débora Mayumi Sato +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Stingless bees are major flower visitors in the tropics, but their foraging preferences and behavior are still poorly understood. Studying stingless bee interactions with angiosperms is methodologically challenging due to the high tropical plant ...
Aline C. Martins +13 more
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Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees [PDF]
, 2014 Self-sacrificial behavior represents an extreme and relatively uncommon form of altruism in worker insects. It can occur, however, when inclusive fitness benefits are high, such as when defending the nest.
Al Toufailia, Hasan +5 more
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JSFA Reports, 2023 Islands are known to host unique flowering plant assemblages visited by insular insects, including by social bees, a phenomenon thought to potentially impact honey composition and associated medicinal applications. In this study, we characterized several
Pierre Noiset +7 more
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Differentiation of argentine propolis from different species of bees and geographical origins by UV spectroscopy and chemometric analysis [PDF]
, 2018 Bees collect vegetal resins that they mix with their wax and mechanical impurities to elaborate propolis, whose chemical composition is complex and variable depending on botanical/geographical origin, type of bee, time of year when it was produced and ...
Borelli, Romina +7 more
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Social acceptance of stingless bee honey cultivation for sustainable bioproduction system
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2023 Stingless bee honey cultivation is one of the bioproduction systems that is predicted to have a high sustainability value. There are 3 indicators in assessing the sustainability of a system taken from the 3 main pillars of sustainability, namely economic,
F. Noorahya, S. Withaningsih, Parikesit
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Scientifica, 2020 Six honey samples produced by the stingless bee Heterotrigona itama were analyzed for their plant sources, phenolic compositions, and antioxidant activities.
Mahani Majid +2 more
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