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Stingless Bee
Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 550 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family Apidae, and are closely related to common honey bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, and bumblebees. Meliponines have stingers, but they are highly reduced and cannot be used for defense, though these bees exhibit other defensive behaviors and mechanisms. Meliponines are not the only type of bee incapable of stinging: all male bees and many female bees of several other families, such as Andrenidae, also cannot sting. Some stingless bees have powerful mandibles and can inflict painful bites. Geographical distribution Stingless bees can be found in most tropical or subtropical regions of the world, such as Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and tropical America.Michener, C D. ''The bees of the World''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 972 pp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée Louis Michel Le Peletier, Comte De Saint-Fargeau
Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (9 October 1770 – 23 August 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a French entomologist, and specialist in the Hymenoptera. In 1833, he served as president of the Société entomologique de France. Works *with Gaspard Auguste Brullé '' Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères''. Roret, Paris 1836–46 p.m. *''Memoires sur le G. Gorytes Latr. Arpactus Jur''. Paris 1832. *''Monographia tenthredinetarum, synonimia extricata''. Levrault, Paris 1823–25. *''Mémoire sur quelques espéces nouvelles d’Insectes de la section des hyménoptères appelés les portetuyaux et sur les caractères de cette famille et des genres qui la composent''. Paris 1806. *''Défense de Félix Lepeletier''. Vatar, Paris 1796/97. *with Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville a treatise on Hemiptera to Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Histoire naturelle. ''Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friesella
''Friesella'' is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for .... The species of this genus are found in Southern America. Species: * ''Friesella schrottkyi'' (Friese, 1900) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5869653 Apidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leurotrigona
''Leurotrigona'' is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae. The species of this genus are found in Southern America. Species: *''Leurotrigona crispula'' *'' Leurotrigona gracilis'' *''Leurotrigona muelleri ''Leurotrigona muelleri'', commonly known as the lambe-olhos bee ( Brazilian Portuguese: "eye-licking bee"), is a species of small eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey ...'' *'' Leurotrigona pusilla'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4042823 Meliponini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lestrimelitta
''Lestrimelitta'' is a genus of stingless bees found in the Neotropics, from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, with about 20 known species. They are small, shining black species from 4 to 7 mm in length, with rounded heads and reduced pollen baskets. Unlike most eusocial bees, they do not gather their own pollen and nectar from flowers, thus are not pollinator A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains. Insects are the maj ...s, but instead they invade the colonies of other stingless bee species and rob their pollen and honey stores (a phenomenon called " cleptobiosis"). They do not initiate their own nests, but they will "evict" another stingless bee colony from its nest (usually in a tree cavity), and convert the pre-existing nest to house their own colony. Selected taxa *'' Lestrimelitta cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
