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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Origin, biodiversity and behavior of the stingless bees (Meliponini) -- The Meliponini / Charles D. Michener -- Historical Biogeography of the Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) of the Neotropical Region / João Maria Franco de Camargo -- Australian Stingless Bees / Megan Halcroft, Robert Spooner-Hart, Lig Anne Dollin -- Stingless Bees from Venezuela / Silvia R.M. Pedro, João Maria Franco de Camargo -- Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana / Alain Pauly, Silvia R.M. Pedro, Claus Rasmussen, David W. Roubik -- Stingless Bees of Guatemala / Carmen Lucía Yurrita Obiols, Mabel Vásquez -- Stingless Bees of Costa Rica / Ingrid Aguilar, Eduardo Herrera, Gabriel Zamora -- Stingless Bees in Argentina / Arturo Roig-Alsina, Favio Gerardo Vossler, Gerardo Pablo Gennari -- Mexican Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, Distribution, and Indigenous Knowledge / Ricardo Ayala, Victor H. Gonzalez, Michael S. Engel |
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The Role of Useful Microorganisms to Stingless Bees and Stingless Beekeeping / Cristiano Menezes, Ayrton Vollet-Neto, Felipe Andrés Felipe León Contrera -- Microorganisms Associated with Stingless Bees / Paula B. Morais, Paula S. São Thiago Calaça, Carlos Augusto Rosa -- Stingless Bee Food Location Communication: From the Flowers to the Honey Pots / Daniel Sánchez, Rémy Vandame -- On the Diversity of Foraging-Related Traits in Stingless Bees / Michael Hrncir, Camila Maia-Silva -- Stingless bees in culture, traditions and environment -- Stingless Bees: A Historical Perspective / Richard Jones -- Medicinal Uses of Melipona beecheii Honey, by the Ancient Maya / Genoveva R. Ocampo Rosales -- Staden's First Report in 1557 on the Collection of Stingless Bee Honey by Indians in Brazil / Wolf Engels -- Melipona Bees in the Scientific World: Western Cultural Views / Raquel Barceló Quintal, David W. Roubik |
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Taxonomy as a Tool for Conservation of African Stingless Bees and Their Honey / Connal Eardley, Peter Kwapong -- Effects of Human Disturbance and Habitat Fragmentation on Stingless Bees / Virginia Meléndez Ramírez, Laura Meneses Calvillo, Peter G. Kevan -- What plants are used by the stingless bees? -- Palynology Serving the Stingless Bees / Ortrud Monika Barth -- How to Be a Bee-Botanist Using Pollen Spectra / David W. Roubik, Jorge Enrique Moreno Patiño -- Important Bee Plants for African and Other Stingless Bees / Robert Kajobe -- Botanical Origin of Pot-Honey from Tetragonisca angustula Latreille in Colombia / Diana Obregón, Ángela Rodríguez-C, Fermín J. Chamorro, Guiomar Nates-Parra -- Sensory attributes and composition of pot-honey -- Sensory Evaluation of Stingless Bee Pot-Honey / Rosires Deliza, Patricia Vit |
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Melipona favosa Pot-Honey from Venezuela / Patricia Vit -- Tetragonisca angustula Pot-Honey Compared to Apis mellifera Honey from Brazil / Ligia Bicudo de Almeida-Muradian -- Honey of Colombian Stingless Bees: Nutritional Characteristics and Physicochemical Quality Indicators / Carlos Alberto Fuenmayor, Amanda Consuelo Díaz-Moreno, Carlos Mario Zuluaga-Domínguez -- The Pot-Honey of Guatemalan Bees / María José Dardón, Carlos Maldonado-Aguilera, Eunice Enríquez -- Pot-Honey of Six Meliponines from Amboró National Park, Bolivia / Urbelinda Ferrufino, Patricia Vit -- An Electronic Nose and Physicochemical Analysis to Differentiate Colombian Stingless Bee Pot-Honey / Carlos Mario Zuluaga-Domínguez, Amanda Consuelo Díaz-Moreno, Carlos Alberto Fuenmayor -- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Method to Predict the Geographical and Entomological Origin of Pot-Honey / Elisabetta Schievano, Stefano Mammi, Ileana Menegazzo |
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Nonaromatic Organic Acids of Honeys / María Teresa Sancho, Inés Mato, José F. Huidobro, Miguel Angel Fernández-Muiño -- Biological properties -- Flavonoids in Stingless-Bee and Honey-Bee Honeys / Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán, Pilar Truchado, Federico Ferreres -- Antioxidant Activity of Pot-Honey / Antonio Jesús Rodríguez-Malaver -- Use of Honey in Cancer Prevention and Therapy / Patricia Vit, Jun Qing Yu, Fazlul Huq -- Bioactivity of Honey and Propolis of Tetragonula laeviceps in Thailand / Chanpen Chanchao -- Costa Rican Pot-Honey: Its Medicinal Use and Antibacterial Effect / Gabriel Zamora, María Laura Arias, Ingrid Aguilar, Eduardo Umaña -- Immunological Properties of Bee Products / José Angel Cova -- Chemical Properties of Propolis Collected by Stingless Bees / Ömür Gençay Çelemli -- Marketing and standards of pot-honey -- Production and Marketing of Pot-Honey / Rogério Marcos de Oliveira Alves |
| Summary |
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 |
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Life sciences |
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Food science |
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Ecology |
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Entomology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Stingless bees.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Insects & Spiders.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Entomology.
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Stingless bees
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Méliponidés.
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Miel.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vit, Patricia
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Pedro, Silvia R. M
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Roubik, David W. (David Ward), 1951-
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| ISBN |
9781461449607 |
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146144960X |
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9781299197220 |
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1299197221 |
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1461449596 |
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9781461449591 |
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