Honey produced by some species of Australian stingless bees possesses impressive bacteria- and fungi-killing properties, according to new research. With problems of antimicrobial resistance, the ...

Peru grants legal rights to native stingless bees, setting a global precedent to protect key pollinators in the Amazon rainforest.

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 ...

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 remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native stingless bees, long overshadowed by their stinging cousins, have become the first ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

Stingless bees gather near the entrance to their hive on June 22, 2024. Their hive is nestled in a tiny hole in a tree near Palo Alto’s Rinconada Community Garden. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Brazilian ...

Native to the tropics, these pollinators are taking a lead role in one of the latest efforts to conserve the Amazon rainforest. Melipona eburnea, a species of bee, is native to the Amazon. Unlike the ...