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Pollination efficacy of stingless bees, Tetragonula pagdeni Schwarz (Apidae: Meliponini), on greenhouse tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum Linnaeus) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 The stingless bee Tetragonula pagdeni is distributed over a vast Southeast Asian territory. This species is commonly used as a commercial insect pollinator. Pollination efficacy of T.
Kanyanat Wongsa +2 more
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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 ...
Francisco Garcia Bulle Bueno +6 more
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Big bees do a better job : intraspecific size variation influences pollination effectiveness [PDF]
, 2014 Funding: School of Biology, University of St AndrewsBumblebees (Bombus spp.) are efficient pollinators of many flowering plants, yet the pollen deposition performance of individual bees has not been investigated.
Finlayson, Kathryn +5 more
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SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IN SOCIAL INSECTS [PDF]
, 2014 Social learning plays a valuable role in the lives of many animal taxa, sometimes allowing individuals to bypass the costs of personal exploration. The ubiquity of this behaviour may arise from the fact that learning from others is often underpinned by ...
Dawson, Erika H
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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.
Xing ZHENG +6 more
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The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya
GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2022 Stingless/meliponine bees are eusocial insects whose polylactic nature enables interaction with a wide variety of wild plants and crops that enhance pollination and, hence, support ecosystem services.
David Masereti Makori +7 more
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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.
Chen Xin +6 more
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Laboratory studies examining aspects of scent marking, traplining and remote detection of reward in the foraging bumblebee. [PDF]
, 2007 PhDEnergy from food is essential for the survival of all animals. For decades, bumblebees have been used as model organisms for studying animal foraging strategies.
Saleh, Nehal
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2022 Insect pollination has been reported to have a better yield quality and quantity than artificial pollination. Wild bees, including stingless bees contribute to effective and efficient pollination on okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.: Malvaceae).
Kartika Marta Djakaria +2 more
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Stingless bees as collectors of resin from Bertholletia excelsa Bonpland (Lecythidaceae)
Entomological Communications, 2023 Stingless bees build their nests using, in general, clay, wax and resins; in addition, these bees also use resins for defense against natural enemies and as an antimicrobial agent.
Iris A. Cruz, Paulo C. S. Barroso
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