Resin Use by Stingless Bees: A Review [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Stingless bees (Meliponini) are highly social bees that are native to tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems. Resin use is vital to many aspects of stingless bee colony function. Stingless bees use resin to build essential nest structures, repel predators,
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Deep Divergence and Genomic Diversification of Gut Symbionts of Neotropical Stingless Bees [PDF]
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.
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A Global Review of the Pests and Diseases of Stingless Bees [PDF]
InsectsManaged pollinators are essential to agricultural productivity, but there are concerns that overreliance on western honey bees (Apis mellifera) places this productivity at risk.
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Environmental Sources of Possible Associated Pathogens and Contaminants of Stingless Bees in the Neotropics [PDF]
InsectsStingless bees are crucial for pollination and support diverse ecological relationships, offering economic benefits and contributing to enhanced crop yields.
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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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Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Indigenous and non-indigenous people in subtropical and temperate areas of Bhutan share an intricate relationship with stingless bees for diverse purposes including ethno-medicinal uses. Stingless bees hold significant importance in the realms
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Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023 Background Stingless bees have a great value as main pollinators of wild flowering and cultivated plants, thus playing a fundamental role in the maintenance of biodiversity and food security in Latin America. Despite their importance, stingless bees face
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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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