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Stingless bees --- Honey --- Bee products --- Natural sweeteners --- Nectar --- Meliponidae --- Meliponini --- Stingless honeybees --- Apidae --- Therapeutic use
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Stingless bees (Meliponini) are the largest and most diverse group of social bees, yet their largely tropical distribution means that they are less studied than their relatives, the bumble bees and honey bees. Stingless bees produce honey and collect pollen from tens of thousands of tropical plant species and, in the process, provide critical pollination services in the tropics. Like many other insects, they are struggling with new human-made challenges like habitat destruction, climate change and new diseases. This book provides an overview of stingless bee biology, with chapters on the evolutionary history, nesting biology, colony organisation and division of labour of stingless bees. In addition, it explores their defence strategies, foraging ecology, and varied communication methods. Accordingly, the book offers an accessible introduction and reference guide for students, researchers and laypeople interested in the biology of bees.
Entomology. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Animal ecology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Invertebrates. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Invertebrata --- Animals --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Insects --- Stingless bees. --- Meliponidae --- Meliponini --- Stingless honeybees --- Apidae --- Evolution (Biology)
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The meliponines, stingless honey-making bees, encircle the tropical world and penetrate every forest there. This book brings together and synthesizes, on a global scale and for the first time, information on these bees as honey producers and natural alchemists. Their ability to store their food in flexible cerumen ‘pots’ made from wax and resin enables them to produce honey for which the world has no other source. These little known and often rare denizens of remote reaches of the globe have found a way to produce honey and survive in the permanently wet and unforgiving rain forests, since before the continents of Africa and South America split apart 100 million years ago. In Australia, we find them equipped to survive in cold deserts, and in the Amazon some feed within the nests of other social bees, utilize flesh of dead animals, or even live among scale bugs that give them food and building material. Some are obligate parasites, stealing the brood food from inside nests of other meliponines. Pot-honey is a minor honey in the market but a major honey in the forest, produced by many hundreds of flowering plants and demanding integrated conservation. Complementing the unifloral honeys of Apis mellifera, many more pot-honeys are yet to be appreciated by the public. The analytical corpus developed to study and standardize honey produced in combs is also valid for pot-honey. Honey ferments inside the nests of Meliponini, and the process continues after harvest. According to A. mellifera standards it is spoiled, yet a more medicinal product results and may remodel our concept of honey. As shown here, the meliponines, support a legacy of bees interacting with human culture, traditions, art, science and philosophy.
Insects -- Habitat. --- Stingless bees --- Honey --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Ecology --- Invertebrates & Protozoa --- Stingless bees. --- Honey. --- Meliponidae --- Meliponini --- Stingless honeybees --- Life sciences. --- Food --- Ecology. --- Animal ecology. --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Food Science. --- Biotechnology. --- Bee products --- Natural sweeteners --- Nectar --- Apidae --- Food science. --- Science --- Animals --- Insects --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology . --- Food—Biotechnology.
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This book covers pot-pollen—the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini. Critical assessment is given of stingless bee and pot-pollen biodiversity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Topics addressed include historical biogeography, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, pollination, ecological interactions, health applications, microbiology, the natural history of bee nests, and chemical, bioactive and individual plant components in stored pollen. Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume.
Honeybee. --- Stingless bees. --- Life sciences. --- Food --- Biochemistry. --- Animal ecology. --- Animal physiology. --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Food Science. --- Animal Biochemistry. --- Animal Physiology. --- Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Biotechnology. --- Insects --- Zoology --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Ecology --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Food biotechnology --- Biotechnology --- Genetically modified foods --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Physiology --- Composition --- Meliponidae --- Meliponini --- Stingless honeybees --- Apidae --- Apis mellifera --- European honeybee --- Hive bee --- Honey bee --- Apis (Insects) --- Bees --- Bee culture --- Food science. --- Food—Biotechnology. --- Animal systematics. --- Animal taxonomy. --- Animal classification --- Animal systematics --- Animal taxonomy --- Classification --- Systematic zoology --- Systematics (Zoology) --- Taxonomy, Animal --- Zoological classification --- Zoological systematics --- Zoological taxonomy
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The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planet’s tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive. In Mexico, the management of stingless bees dates back centuries, and they were an essential part of the culture and cosmogony of native peoples like the Maya. In recent decades a vast amount of information has been gathered on stingless bees worldwide. This book summarizes various aspects of the biology and management of stingless bees, with special emphasis on the Mexican species and the traditions behind their cultivation. Much of the information presented here was produced by the author and the team of researchers at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in the course of three decades of working with these insects. Given the breadth of its coverage, the book offers an equally valuable reference guide for academics, students and beekeepers alike.
Bee culture --- Stingless bees --- Meliponidae --- Meliponini --- Stingless honeybees --- Apidae --- Apiculture --- Bee keeping --- Beekeeping --- Honeybee --- Honeybee culture --- Keeping, Bee --- Keeping bees --- Rearing of bees --- Insect rearing --- Rearing --- Entomology. --- Animal ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Ethnology. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Animals --- Zoology --- Insects --- Animal systematics. --- Animal taxonomy. --- Ecology . --- Animal classification --- Animal systematics --- Animal taxonomy --- Classification --- Systematic zoology --- Systematics (Zoology) --- Taxonomy, Animal --- Zoological classification --- Zoological systematics --- Zoological taxonomy --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology
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