Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees ...

As a child, Heriberto Vela, an Indigenous resident of Loreto, Peru, watched his father pull nests of wild stingless bees from trees in the Amazon forest. Together, the two then extracted honey from ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

Bengaluru: Deep within the dense jungles of Chamarajanagar, an unusual transformation is quietly unfolding — driven not by infrastructure or heavy machinery, but by some of nature's tiniest yet most ...

In a groundbreaking move with international significance, insects—specifically stingless bees from the Peruvian Amazon—have ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2020) Brazil is home to more than 300 native bee species — many of them stingless — that help pollinate the nation’s valuable agricultural crops and provide other important ...

For decades, Guillermo Valverde Azofeifa and Andrea Mora Montero have kept Melipona stingless bees in their garden, a task that is becoming more difficult. Their home has become surrounded by ...

Guwahati: Researchers at Nagaland University (NU) discovered two species of stingless bees, Tetragonula iridipennis Smith and Lepidotrigona arcifera Cockerell, that enhance agricultural productivity ...