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A Maya stingless bee hive: A piece of hollow log provides a home for meliponine bees in Belize. The stingless bees Melipona beecheii and M. yucatanica are the primary native bees cultured in Central America, though a few other species are reported as being occasionally managed (e.g., Trigona fulviventris and Scaptotrigona mexicana). [133]
Trigona bees are active all year round, although they are less active in cool environments. [2] Nest of stingless bee of genus Trigona, in traditional modular brazilian north-east style box. Only one part of the box is open. Multiple small honey pots are well visible in the foreground.
It is also part of the Apidae family which encompasses bumble bees, euglossines, honey bees, and stingless bees, and falls in the genus Trigona, which is specific for stingless bees. [1] The genus Trigona is the largest and most diverse group of stingless bees, with over 80 nominal species and about 28 undescribed species. Bees within this ...
Meliponary with individual posts in the Pau Brasil village, in the Tupiniquim Indigenous Land, Aracruz, Espírito Santo.. Meliponiculture is the rational farming of stingless bees (SB), or meliponines (Meliponini tribe), which is different from apiculture (the breeding of bees of the Apis mellifera species; western honey bee or European honey bee; Apini tribe). [1]
Melipona beecheii is a species of eusocial stingless bee.It is native to Central America from the Yucatán Peninsula in the north to Costa Rica in the south. [2] M. beecheii was cultivated in the Yucatán Peninsula starting in the pre-Columbian era by the ancient Maya civilization.
The use of stingless bees is referred to as meliponiculture, named after bees of the tribe Meliponini—such as Melipona quadrifasciata in Brazil. This variation of bee keeping still occurs around the world today. [13] M. quadrifasciata is frequently harvested to be used as a greenhouse pollinator because it is stingless and can easily live in ...
However, this process is different for stingless bees like T. iridipennis and honey bees. In honeybees, the process is abrupt and a large group of workers leaves the original colony with the old queen, thus few connections are maintained between the old and the new colonies. The process is more gradual for stingless bees such as T. iridepennis ...
The stingless bee S. quadripunctata varies in size from 6.0 to 7.5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 to 9 ⁄ 32 in). [4] Worker bees and dwarf queens tend to be on the lower end of this spectrum while queens tend to lie on the higher end.