#meliponini — Public Fediverse posts
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A group of Valdez's Stingless Bee (Tetragonula valdezi) spotted buzzing around a lamp post at Telok Blangah Hill Park, Singapore on 5 Jan 2025. These tiny and harmless native bees ignored me as I took these shots.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257447415 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Bees #Hymenoptera #StinglessBees #Meliponini
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Tetragonula stingless bees are the main potential alternative to honeybees for crop #pollination in #Australia. Very little is known on #stingless #bee mating and queen #behaviour. I was very happy to support student and stingless bee specialist Francisco Bulle Bueno during his work.
There are a lot of cool pictures and behavioural descriptions in this article, have a look:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-022-00887-z
#ecology #behaviouralecology #biology #science #bees #Meliponini #insects #entomology
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About a decade ago I bought a piece of #amber with ancient #StinglessBees (#Meliponini). Today we put them under the #microscope. You can even see the #corbicula! Looks like she might have been carrying #pollen when she got stuck? Second photo taken for artistic purposes, but you can clearly see the #wing.