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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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Trigona corvina (Cockerell, 1913) is a species of stingless bee that lives primarily in Central and South America. [1] [2] In Panama, they are sometimes known as zagañas.They live in protective nests high in the trees, but they can be extremely aggressive and territorial over their resources. [1]
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.
Sugarbag bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) and Indian stingless bee (T. iridipennis) date uncertain Australia, India: honey, wax, propolis, pollination 6a Hymenoptera: Dubia roach (Blaptica dubia) date uncertain Central America, South America: animal feed, pets Captive-bred 6b Other insects: Mealworm (Tenebrio molitar) and superworm (Zophobas morio ...
Tetragonula is a genus of stingless bees. In 1961, Brazilian bee expert J.S. Moure first proposed the genus name Tetragonula [1] to improve the classification system by dividing the large genus Trigona stingless bees into 9 smaller groups. About 30 stingless bee species formerly placed in the genus Trigona are now placed in the genus Tetragonula.