Melipona tambien utiliza barro, normalmente mezclado. Pdf melipona beecheii y scaptotrigona mexicana claudia. And the information material we have to get to know the sacred bee. The following food replacements were compared to honey h1. Melipona favosa pothoney from venezuela springerlink. Although the former product reaches a higher price in the market compared with the traditional honey, there is a few information, both in the. This study evaluated nutritional alternatives for the amazonian stingless bee melipona flavolineata, looking for a substitute for honey and processed pollen.
Two types of honey are produced and commercialized in brazil. Stingless bee honey is completely different from that produced by the bees of the genus apis 1,2. The stingless bee melipona favosa lives in the plains and coastal areas of venezuela. Physicochemical parameters of amazon melipona honey. It is a gentle bee known locally as erica and maba.
This bee commonly nests in trees, walls, fence posts, and is kept in hives by traditional stingless beekeepers. Melipona beecheii is the most important stingless bee species in mexico and guatemala due to the honey yields and reported medicinal properties vit et al. The western honey bee or european honey bee apis mellifera is the most common of the 712 species of honey bee worldwide. Diet impacts on melipona flavolineata workers apidae. The genus name apis is latin for bee, and mellifera is the latin for honeybearing, referring to the species production of honey for the winter. Melipona quinquefasciata in ne brazil 479 occurrence and biogeographic aspects of melipona quinquefasciata in ne brazil hymenoptera, apidae limaverde, l. Project noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to. Electrophoresis characterisation of protein as a method to. Melipona nigrescens, an endemic species, was found above 2600 m altitude.
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