Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...

As a child, Heriberto Vela, an Indigenous resident of Loreto, Peru, watched his father pull nests of wild stingless bees from trees in the Amazon forest. Together, the two then extracted honey from ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

In a groundbreaking move with international significance, insects—specifically stingless bees from the Peruvian Amazon—have ...

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 ...

Those small, misshapen apples you hate seeing at the supermarket? Turns out, you can blame bees — or the lack of the tiny, ...

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 ...

Mérida serves as the capital city of Mexico's Yucatán state. Centuries before the concept of Mexico was ever dreamed up, the Maya civilization stretched across North America from modern-day Holbox ...

Stingless bees are found throughout tropical and subtropical parts of the world and produce significantly less honey than their European honey bee counterparts (Apis mellifera) which are the world's ...

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 ...