BrisScience (June 2020): The science of stingless bees
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- While there are over 20,000 bee species around the world, there is one group that hold a special place in the hearts of humans: the stingless bees (Meliponini).
There are an estimated 600 stingless bee species found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and here in Australia we have 11 species. Like European honey bees, stingless bees live in colonies of thousands, have a single egg-laying queen and make and store delicious honey. Unlike European honey bees, stingless bees cannot sting, and their honey has a unique and tangy flavour.
This lecture will take you into the secret lives of stingless bees, both Australian and overseas species, and introduce you to Meliponiculture - the keeping and management of stingless bees.
Meet the presenter:
Dr Tobias Smith is a bee researcher with UQ's School of Biological Sciences. Tobias’s research interests focus on stingless bee biology and ecology, wild bees in agricultural landscapes and the creation of native bee identification resources and science communication.
In addition to working at UQ, Tobias presents native bee, pollination and stingless bee keeping workshops to community groups and schools, primarily through his business Bee Aware Kids. Tobias is a stingless bee keeper, keeping commercial hives around south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales as well as keeping research hives at UQ.
Well, as the Australian Professor said, Brazil is really very advanced on stingless bee keeping. We have top stingless bees researchers at Embrapa(federal agency for agricultural research) and at INPA(National institute for research in the Amazon region). They have been working for decades on it and we already a lot of technology developed for stingless bees keeping. There are small farmers all over the Country doing Meliponiculture. In the poorest states of the North, it is done mostly for honey production, but in the richest states of the Southeast, like São Paulo, there is a booming market for stingless bee colonies sold as pets. The Government is incentivating stingless bee keeping as a means of creating jobs, since the investmente needed to start it is very small.
Phenomenon of fighting workers and competition of stingless bees is really very interesting.
In phillipines there is a pretty big farm of stingless bees one is in bicol the name of farm is balay sa uma..
Than you for interesting lecture. Nest architecture of stingless bees are so amazing! Good luck!
That's amazing! I'm from Brazil and liked that, really... THANKS FOR YOU KNOWLEDGE AUSTRALIA!
Great presentation! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Great presentation, would like to know more of the life cycle in time, swarming etc.
Excellent lecture! Very insightful, thank you!
Is high moisture in bee honey a problem? Is it important to reduce the moisture content of honey before it is marketed? or must be done so that the product can be sold, if the moisture is
Very interesting !
Great presentation, I am new to bee keeping. I am from Malaysia, how do you see the future of the stingless bee, say in the next 10 yrs time?
Great presentation. Thank You.
Thank You, from Brazil
thx for information, i want to start to make stingless bee honey business
Question. Can stingless bees survive contact with raw bamboo wood?
Raw bamboo is not advisable. Here in India, we use hardened bamboo wood. As the intruders can dig a hole in raw bamboo, it not advisable. But I saw a small healthy hive using raw bamboo wood last year.
Where can i find a recipe for tetragonula sugar syrup recipe
Bruh Your R Wrong You Said Stingless bee dude that's Philippine Stingless Bee Do Better