The Physicochemical Parameters, Phenolic Content, and Antioxidant Activity of Honey from Stingless Bees and Apis mellifera: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Antioxidants (Basel)The most common bee species used for honey production is Apis mellifera (A. mellifera), followed by stingless bees. This study included scientific articles using the PRISMA approach.
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Fungivorous mites enhance the survivorship and development of stingless bees even when exposed to pesticides [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Stingless bees are the largest group of eusocial bees in the world. They play an essential role as crop pollinators and have been considered for inclusion in pesticide risk assessments (RAs). Beyond the mutualism involving stingless bee larvae and fungi,
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The genomes sequenced for the neotropical stingless bees Scaptotrigona bipunctata and S. depilis strengthen the phylogenomics support for the taxonomy of social bees [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular BiologyBees are fundamental factors in ecology and agriculture due to their ecosystem services as pollinators, including many important crops. Because of its ecological significance and value to humans, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, was one of the earliest ...
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Nutrients or resin? – The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionStingless bees are important pollinators in tropical forests. Yet, we know little about their foraging behavior (e.g., their nutritional requirements or their floral sources visited for resource collection). Many stingless bees not only depend vitally on
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Pot-pollen DNA barcoding as a tool to determine the diversity of plant species visited by Ecuadorian stingless bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIdentifying the main species of plants from where Ecuadorian stingless bees collect pollen is one of the key objectives of management and conservation improvement for these insects.
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Stingless bee floral visitation in the global tropics and subtropics
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 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 ...
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Overview of Stingless Bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)
EntomoBrasilis, 2023 Species richness of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) was organized and updated from previously published data. From this research, we found 28 genera with 259 valid species and 62 undescribed species, in addition, brief comments on the ...
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Environmental science and pollution research international, 2023 Over the last few decades, agrochemicals have been partially associated with a global reduction in bees’ population. Toxicological assessment is therefore crucial for understanding the overall agrochemical risks to stingless bees.
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Recent Progress of Stingless Bee Honey
Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2022 Stingless bees are kinds of pollinating insects with important ecological and economic values, belonging to the Tribe Meliponini of the Family Apidae.
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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.
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