Stingless bees are native to the Amazon, unlike the more familiar but invasive honey bees from Africa and Europe that have spread through the Americas. The most obvious difference, perhaps ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, native stingless bees are helping beekeepers and their communities by producing honey and pollinating local plants. Stingless bees, also known as meliponine bees ...

In Brazil, researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Brasília (UnB), and two startups in the city ...

A team of Indigenous Yucuna women in the Colombian Amazon are rescuing and documenting ... researchers have detected 23 species of native stingless bees. Marta Isabel Romo, a biologist with ...

May 6—(StatePoint) May 20 is World Bee Day, an opportunity to celebrate not only the beloved honey bee, but North America's 4,000 species of native bees ... honey bees and stingless bees ...

“Following our work, the Australian Native Bee Association applied to Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to modify the standard to include stingless bee honey,” Hungerford said. On the ...

First Nations Australians have prized native stingless bee honey for food and medicine for tens of thousands of years, and now consumers can legally buy it. Until late last month, beekeepers who ...

Darias is one of relatively few breeders of the native species on the Caribbean island. He sells the honey he produces as "Mieles de la Tierra," or "Honey from the Earth." Stingless bees in Cuba ...