#melipona

[herpsandbirds]

Stingless Bees (Melipona beecheii), family Apidae, Yucatan, Mexico

photograph by Gilles Arbour

[purpuraimperial]

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[divineorganics]

A new buzz around Brazil’s stingless bee honey

Rare, fermented varieties attract chefs and fuel a growing premium market

This reposted article highlights the rising fascination with stingless bees, their propolis, and wax—natural treasures that boost health and well-being. It's a compelling read for anyone eager to dive into stingless beekeeping, pollinator conservation, and habitat protection.

At Golden Hive Apiaries, a research arm of Divine Organics, we continue to learn more about this important pollinator species and support apiarists engaged in its propagation. If your property or estate has colonies of Stingless bees or you need assistance in how to sustain them, contact us on [phone] or email us at [email protected]

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

I was trying to look up those bees that don't have stingers and google decided im fluent in Spanish now

[drpaulhaider]

The Most Powerful Medicinal Honey in the World 

This Sweet and Sour Honey is the Most Amazing Honey for All Health Challenges and Safe! Please Watch Video. See Lots of New Science Articles Below. Dr. Paul Haider – Award Winning Master Herbalist and Health and Wellness Instructor for 34 Years. Melipona Honey 

[chicosanchez]

Una abeja melipona guardando la entrada de su colmena en Yucatán, México. Aunque no tenga cerebro, la abeja sabe perfectamente lo que tiene que hacer y lo que es importante. Cuando sale de la colmena la abeja enfrenta grandes peligros, pero a pesar de esto, una reina nunca le ordenaría que se “quede en la colmena” para morirse de hambre. Esta es la diferencia entre hombre y animal. Cita de Chico Sánchez en La Historia Verdadera de los Hijos del Sol. Si todavía no lo leíste cómpralo en este enlace: https://chicosanchez.com/blog/f/la-historia-verdadera-de-los-hijos-del-sol---enlaces-directos?blogcategory=Libros Gracias por compartir

[meliponabeehoney]

MELIPONA Bee Raw Honey has been reported as an antimicrobial substance in the treatment of skin injuries, stomach diseases, and fungal colonization of mucosa. In this sense, the high impact of the antibacterial effect on honey has been demonstrated in the inhibition of strains that have resistance to antibiotics.

[hasfeelings]

Sweet talking to stingless bees in the Yucatan

A project in the Yucatan revives stingless beekeeping to yield prized medicines and cultural memory

MANI, Mexico — In Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, people say you have to talk sweetly to the bees, or they will fly away.

“The bees are very sensitive,” keeper Maria Torres Tzab explained.

“Be happy when you see them. Have a good aura,” Torres’ husband, Nicolas Castillo Ucam, said. “They will leave if people fight—they are sad because they understand.”

Sensitivity is just one characteristic that sets this particular genus of bee, Melipona, apart. While honeybees of the more common Apis genus fiercely protect their hives with their stingers, Melipona bees are commonly known as stingless bees for an obvious reason—they have no stingers.

Torres, Castillo and their daughter don’t need protective clothing to tend their hives, which sit under a roof of thatched palm fronds behind their house in the village of Mani. As members of a Heifer project in this region of Mexico, the family is one of many aiming to restore these gentle stingless bees to cultural prominence and provide a source for the bees’ honey, long prized for its curative powers.

The family’s bees take their choice between box hives, which are the standard among Apis beekeepers, and hollow logs where Meliponas are found in nature. Or, how they used to be found. For the last 40 years or so, it has been a rare occurrence to find stingless bees in the Yucatan.

About 200 years ago, European bees, which produce much more honey than the Meliponas, were introduced to Mexico. By the 1970s, it seemed that this competition, combined with pesticides and other chemicals, deforestation and an increasingly fragile ecosystem, had all but eliminated stingless bees in the region. Or, maybe someone did insult the bees, and they actually flew away. Regardless, about 90 percent of managed colonies disappeared on the peninsula between 1980 and 2005, according to bee science journal Apidologie. Today, most people in the Yucatan have never seen a bee without a stinger.

“People have vague recollections of their grandparents tending to the bees or seeing them in the tree trunks,” said Atilano Ceballos Loeza, director of the U Yits Ka’an school of ecological agriculture. “The knowledge is there. The memory is in the heart of the people. How do we cultivate that memory?”