Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...

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

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

Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees ...

The team used a product from native stingless bees to extract bioactive compounds - such as caffeine - from chocolate manufacturing waste. They say the process adds nutritional and commercial value to ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Stingless bees (here, a species from Mexico) live in social colonies and collect nectar and pollen, much like our native honeybees. However, they do not have a stinger and defend themselves in other ...