There are over1,700 species of native bees in Australia, ranging from small solitary bees to social stingless bees. Stingless native bee honey is not available in retail stores, as stocks of this niche product are currently very low. Buyers can find niche sellers online. Having a standard is...
Currently, however, there is a paucity of data on the innate colour preferences of stingless bees that are often implicated as being key pollinators in many parts of the world. In Australia, the endemic stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is widely distributed and known to be an efficient ...
2016. The Australian native bee book. Keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey. Sugarbag Bees, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia... T Heard 被引量: 16发表: 2016年 Aggression and Competition among Stingless Bees: Field Studies Many species of stingless bees exhibit compl...
Like the well-known Apis mellifera honeybees, stingless bees live in permanent colonies made up of a single queen and workers, who collect pollen and nectar to feed larvae within the colony. Dr. Fletcher said keeping native stingless bees was gaining in popularity in Australia, for their role ...
Stingless beesHeterochromatinSublethal concentrationMelipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (HymenopteraCássio Resende de Morais aBruno Augusto Nassif Travenolo bStephan Malfitano Carvalho cMarcelo Emílio Beletti dVanessa Santana Vieira Santos aCarlos Fernando Campos a...
“Stingless bees preferentially visit and pollinate the canopy of native forest trees, unlike the introduced honeybees — Apis mellifera — that tend to pollinate introduced weedy plants at ground level,” says Buchmann. 无刺蜂会优先飞往原生森林的穹顶并为这些树木授粉,不像那些人为引进的欧洲种蜜蜂(...
Fungal diseases such as the exotic myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii), and the native Quambalaria shoot blight (QSB; caused byQuambalariaspecies includingQ. pitereka), constitute a significant threat to both native forests andCorymbiaplantations in Australia and overseas. We here use quantitative tr...
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The propagation and management of stingless bees for pollination services is a growing industry in Australia, but we need to better understand in which crops and environments these pollinators are most useful. We investigated the potential of two Australian stingless bee species, Tetragonula carbonaria...
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are important pollinators that have been managed by humans in all tropical areas of the world. Our work documents the decline of Meliponini and associated LEK in the state of Michoac谩n, western Mexico, as well as local historical management and perceptions ...