Stingless bees have pollinated much of the Amazon for 80 million years and support key crops like cacao, coffee, and bananas. In 2025, municipalities in Peru became the first in the world to grant an ...

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, founder of Amazon Research Internacional, and Constanza ...

In the course of their foraging bouts, bees frequently encounter spider webs among the vegetation. The ability to see and avoid these webs is vital for the success of the individual bee's foraging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees have been pollinating 80% of the Amazon’s flora, including such crops as ...