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Lennard Pisa <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:51:37 +0000
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I worked with stingless bees in Costa Rica (resource partitioning and communication, training bee species and see if they make mistakes). Some were kept for honey, like Tetragonisca and Mellipona. One saw a lot of Tetragonisca hives, jerycans, wooden blocks etc on porches and other places. These bees were split to multiply them. Gathering honey from Tetragonisca meant that you opened the "hive" to find bumblebee like honeypots you could take out and squeeze. Or get it out with a syringe and leave the pots. I think a big colony yielded 500 ml of honey each year, for medicinal purposes mainly. Mellipona were a much bigger bee, kept in hollow logs, it yielded more honey. The other species, Trigona and the rest of the guild, were never kept. Some of these lived in termite like nests in trees, some lived in holes in trees and some lived in the ground. Some of the Trigona were really fierce when disturbed, colonies threw out a lot of workers that started biting and pulling facial hair. 6 mm big bees in your ears and IN your nostrils were a good reason to run away. Back then (mid 90ties) they (the Mexicans) were researching melliponiculture.  Lennard    		 	   		  
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