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A scientific note on the presence of functional tibia for pollen transportation in the robber bee Lestrimelitta limao Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Sociobiology, 2014
Stingless bees belonging to the Lestrimelitta genus shows a unique foraging ecology for the group. Instead of collecting food from flowers, these bees steal their food from other stingless bees’ hives.
Lucas Garcia von Zuben, Túlio Marcos Nunes   +1 more
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A Spatial Look at Negative Externalities in Agricultural Landscapes: Seedless Mandarins and Honey Bee Pollination in California [PDF]

When honey bees transport pollen across citrus orchards they can increase the number of seeds in varieties that remain seedless otherwise. An increase in seeds diminishes the market value of the fruit creating an externality between seedless growers and ...
de Ribes, Antoine Champetier
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Exploring stingless bees and meliponiculture in Nepal

ACTA Apicola Brasilica
Stingless bees are crucial pollinators with significant cultural and ecological roles. They are essential for the pollination of various plants, contributing to biodiversity and the health of ecosystems.
Nischal Kafle, Avishek Giri, Astha Dhakal, Abhishek Bhattarai, Aavash Shrestha   +4 more
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Angiosperm flora used by meliponine guilds (Apidae, Meliponina) occurring at rainforest edges in the state of Ceará, Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2014
Information about the use of floristic resources of the immediate edges of ombrophilous forest (Atlantic rainforest) fragments by stingless bees is not readily available in the scientific literature.
LUIZ W. LIMA-VERDE, MARIA I.B. LOIOLA, BRENO M. FREITAS   +2 more
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Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees

, 2018
Although the importance of bees as the pollinators responsible for maintaining gene flow for many native and cultivated plants in ecosystems around the world is recognized, much of their biodiversity and behavior remains to be discovered.
Felipe Andres L Contrera, Betina Blochtein, Freitas, Breno M., Maria A L Siqueira, Carlos Augusto M Tonelli, Menezes, Cristiano, Cristiano Menezes, Borges, Leandro O., Karoline R S Torezani, Siqueira, Maria A.L., Carmen Silvia S Pires, Tonelli, Carlos Augusto M., Rosa-Fontana, Annelise S. [UNESP], Malaspina, Osmar [UNESP], Márcia de Fátima Ribeiro, Osmar Malaspina, Roberta C F Nocelli, Annelise S Rosa-Fontana, Cham, Karina O., Viana-Silva, Flávia Elizabeth C., Oliveira, Favízia F., Rocha, Maria Cecília L.S.A., Favízia F Oliveira, Blochtein, Betina, Leandro O Borges, Ribeiro, Márcia De Fátima, Pires, Carmen Silvia S., Breno M Freitas, Torezani, Karoline R.S., Nocelli, Roberta C.F., Karina O Cham, Flávia Elizabeth C Viana-Silva, Contrera, Felipe Andres L., Maria Cecília L S A Rocha   +33 more
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Viruses in Brazilian stingless bees

Stingless bees are important pollinators in tropical and subtropical areas. The breeding of native stingless bee species from the Meliponini tribe to obtain honey, pollen, and geopropolis (meliponiculture) is a promising activity in Brazil with economic,
Suelen Oliveira França (18271451), Larissa Freitas de Melo (18271460), Júlio Cesar Melo Poderoso (18271463), Maria Emilene Correia-Oliveira (18271457), Carlos Alfredo Lopes de Carvalho (8855108), Maria Angélica Pereira de Carvalho Costa (4916395), Carine Mascena Peixoto (18271454), João Albany Costa (8744739)   +7 more
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Sex and Caste Specific Eye Structures in Stingless Bees and Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Trigonidae, Apidae)

, 1989
Morph-specific structural differences of the compound eyes and the ocelli were studied by means of corneal replicas, semi-thin sections, and SEM. Drones have enlarged compound eyes, especially in the honey bee, with a region of large ommatidia in the ...
Ribi, W., Engels, E., Engels, W.
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Analysis of reducing sugar, diastase enzyme and acidity substances of stingless bees (Trigona sp.)honey based on time of Harvest in Layuh Village,Batu Benawa Subdistrict, Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency

, 2020
The superiority of Trigona sp bees is its high propolis production (3 kg / colony per year) compared to Apis bees which produce only 20-30 g of propolis per colony per year.
Rahmadi, Adi, Ulfah, Diana
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Interações entre Euterpe edulis Mart. (Arecaceae) e insetos visitantes florais em sistema agroflorestal na Ilha de Santa Catarina [PDF]

, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agroecossistemas, Florianópolis, 2010O trabalho objetiva estudar a biologia reprodutiva de Euterpe edulis, descrever visitantes ...
Dorneles, Livia Leal
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Phloroglucinols from Anti-Microbial Deposit-Resins of Australian Stingless Bees (Tetragonula carbonaria)

, 2015
Stingless bees accumulate deposits of plant resins that are mixed with beeswax to produce propolis. Previous studies have reported anti-microbial constituents of stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) propolis from East Australia, but several components ...
Peter Brooks, Smyth, Thomas J, Wallace, H. M., Leonhardt, S, Thomas J. Smyth, Smyth, T. J., Heard, Tim, Katouli, M, Katouli, M., Smyth, W F, W. Franklin Smyth, Smyth, W. F., C. Flavia Massaro, Heard, T., Brooks, P., Helen M. Wallace, Mohammad Katouli, Tim Heard, Massaro, C. F., Wallace, H M, Brooks, P R, Massaro, C F, Sara D. Leonhardt, Leonhardt, S. D.   +23 more
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