Hive bees provide essential pollination services to human agriculture. Managed honey bees
in particular pollinate many crops, but also create honey and other bee products that are …

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 …

Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant
resins to maintain their colonies. The chemical components of their nests are bioactive and …

Abstract The Neotropical bee genus Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 is characterized
among stingless bees by having a yellow pigmented maculation on body, especially on the …

The current biodiversity conservation framework explores “nature-people” relationships,
recognizing culture's central role. This study aimed to combine local knowledge with …

Beneficial molecules for bee colony nutrition and health are also nutritional and medicinal
for humans consuming bee products. Stingless bee species are a source of entomological …

The sensory quality of a food is related to the consumer's ethno-social and idiosyncratic
conditions. In this study, honeys from three different environments in the Chaco region of …

Bees called meliponas (family Apidae, tribe Meliponini) are native stingless bees (ANSA)
whose products (honey and other elements from the hive) have been employed by various …

This chapter traces the origins, knowledge, and motivations that have led inhabitants of
different regions of Argentina to practice meliponiculture. Taking an ethnobiological …

To increase conservation effectiveness in protected areas (PA) and restore biological and
cultural diversity, it becomes essential to integrate different knowledge systems. A useful …