species: Melipona amazonica (Schulz, 1905) Melipona asilvai (Moure, 1971) Melipona baeri (Vachal, 1904) Melipona beecheii (Bennett, 1831) Melipona belizeae...
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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...
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Melipona scutellaris is a eusocial stingless bee species of the order Hymenoptera and the genus Melipona. It is considered to be the reared Melipona species...
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this group generally belong to the genera Scaptotrigona, Tetragonisca, Melipona and Austroplebeia, although there are other genera containing species that...
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Melipona bicolor Lepeletier, 1836, commonly known as Guaraipo or Guarupu, is a eusocial bee found primarily in South America. It is an inhabitant of the...
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Melipona quadrifasciata is a species of eusocial, stingless bee of the order Hymenoptera. It is native to the southeastern coastal states of Brazil, where...
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Melipona capixaba, commonly known as uruçu negra (black uruçu) in Brazil, is a species of eusocial stingless bees of the order Hymenoptera. It is endemic...
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Melipona compressipes, commonly known as tiúba in Brazil, is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. Pedro, Silvia...
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Melipona subnitida is a neotropical bee species in the Apidae family found in the dry areas of Northeastern Brazil. This species of stingless bees practices...
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bees used by the Maya are Melipona beecheii and Melipona yucatanica, species of stingless bee. Ah Muzen Cab is a Melipona bee. The deity is the creator...
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Melipona seminigra, commonly known as uruçu-boca-de-renda (literally "laced-mouth uruçu" bee in Brazilian Portuguese), is a species of eusocial stingless...
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Melipona rufiventris, commonly known as tujuba in Brazil, is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. It is endemic...
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(2007). "Chemical Changes Associated with the Invasion of a Melipona scutellaris Colony by Melipona rufiventris Workers". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 33 (5):...
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Plebeina armata (redirect from Melipona denoiti)
Trigona armata Magretti, 1895 Trigona (Plebeina) hildebrandti (Friese, 1900) Melipona (Trigona) denoiti Vachal, 1903 Trigona denoiti katangensis Cockerell, 1934...
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physically harmed. This is true for other native pollinators, such as Melipona quadrifasciata and Scaptotrigona postica, because they nest in pequi trees...
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for that purpose, including the stingless bees belonging to the genus Melipona and the Indian stingless or dammar bee Tetragonula iridipennis. Modern...
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Melipona interrupta, commonly known as jandaíra in Brazil, is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. Pedro, Silvia...
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Euglossa species, Eulaema cingulata, Eulaema polychroma, Eulaema meriana, and Melipona beecheii for pollination. However, no definitive observation of pollination...
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such as white Naal Teel corn, Ixil onions, Xtop pepita, bee larva, and Melipona honey from the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. Products from the rest of the...
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Myrtaceae is foraged by many stingless bees, especially by species such as Melipona bicolor which gather pollen from this plant family. Some Australian species...
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off the nest with bursts of wing buzzing. Stingless bees (Trigona and Melipona) use chemical defences against ants. Flies in the Old World genus Bengalia...
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Melipona quinquefasciata, commonly known as the mandaçaia-da-terra or mandaçaia-do-chão (Brazilian Portuguese: "ground mandaçaia" bee) in Brazil, is a...
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the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect...
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takes over reproduction while their young are raised by host workers, and Melipona scutellaris, a eusocial bee whose virgin queens escape killer workers and...
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received sperm from a male. In many species of stingless bees, especially Melipona bicolor, the queen lays her eggs during the provisioning and oviposition...
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bee in Central America is threatening the traditional craft of keeping Melipona stingless bees in log gums, although they do not interbreed or directly...
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energy on their journeys to hunt and search for food. All species of meliponas are eusocial, i.e. they have a work structure divided into castes, where...
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of Sri Lanka. Many older references erroneously placed this species in Melipona, an unrelated genus from the New World, and until recently it was placed...
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practiced apiculture, producing wax and honey from a variety of bees, such as Melipona or Trigona, European bees (Apis mellifera)—were more productive, delivering...
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flowers were historically presumed to be pollinated by stingless bees (e.g. Melipona) or hummingbirds, but this was never confirmed; the only actual documented...
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