Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

Stingless bees are very social. Even though they do not have stingers they are very important for pollination. They also make honey that is used for medicine. You can find Stingless bees on four ...

The mystery of what creates the rare, healthy sugar found in stingless bee honey, has been solved by researchers at The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Queensland Health Forensic and ...

Most stingless bee keepers are not after honey. Rather, they enjoy the sense of conserving a native species whose original habitat is being increasingly cleared and developed. In return, the bees ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...

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, surround a ...

We’ve departed from the glistening shores of Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the last two weeks learning about terrestrial ecology since I last wrote. We went from snorkeling daily to ...

Unidentified Meliponini bee, covered with pollen, visiting a flower of the Vegetable Sponge Gourd (Luffa cylindrica) in Campinas, Brazil (Wikimedia Commons/Leonardo Ré-Jorge/Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

Researchers in Brazil identified anti-inflammatory properties of a cream made with the propolis of Amazon stingless bees, with results similar to commercial healing ointments. Stingless bees ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted ...