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Stingless bee

Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family Apidae (subfamily Apinae), and are closely related to common honey bees (HB, tribe Apini)…

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Stingless bee

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Stingless bee

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related to Australia · 19
Stingless bee → Aboriginal, As, Australia, Australian, Austroplebeia, Both, Brisbane, Coot-tha, Harvesting, In, Most, New South Wales, Of, Only, Queensland, Tetragonula, The, These, While
related to Brazil · 19
Stingless bee → Also, Although, Among, August, Besides, Brazil, Brazilian, Frieseomelitta, Many, Melipona, Meliponini, Most, Nannotrigona, Nowadays, Portuguese, Scaptotrigona, Tetragonisca, They, This
related to Geographical distribution · 17
Stingless bee → African, Afrotropical, America, Argentina, Australasian, Australia, Central, Cuba, Indo-Malayan, Mexico, Neotropical, SB, South America, Southeast Asia, Stingless, The, The Neotropics
related to Origin and dispersion · 16
Stingless bee → According, Afrotropical, Asia, Bering Strait, Beringia, Europe, Greenland, Indo-Malay/Australasia, Meliponini, Neotropical, Neotropics, North America, Phylogenetic, Studies, The, Thulean
related to Taxonomy · 13
Stingless bee → Apidae, Apini, Bombini, Despite, Euglossini, German, Greek, It, Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister, Melipona, Meliponini, Members, The
related to Evolution and phylogeny · 11
Stingless bee → Apini, Bombini, Both Meliponini, Euglossini, In, Meliponines, Meliponini, Morphological, The, This, Two
related to Africa · 9
Stingless bee → Africa, Also, Despite, Madagascar, Most, South America, Southeast Asia, Stingless, Sub-Saharan Africa
related to Swarming · 9
Stingless bee → Apis, Conversely, In HB, Mated, SB, Scaptotrigona, Stingless, The, There
related to Central America · 8
Stingless bee → Africanized, Central America, Maya, Melipona, Scaptotrigona, The, They, Trigona
related to history · 7
Stingless bee → Cretotrigona, Despite, Fossils, Late Cretaceous, New Jersey, The, This

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and Mexicoinstance ofwith notable instances in countries0.80text
perennial colony lifestylesinstance ofdefined by the presence of distinct queen and worker castes and characterized by features0.80text
extensive food sharing among adultsinstance ofdefined by the presence of distinct queen and worker castes and characterized by features0.80text
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foraginginstance ofwhile the workers perform various tasks0.80text
nursinginstance ofwhile the workers perform various tasks0.80text
and defending the colonyinstance ofwhile the workers perform various tasks0.80text
the absence of a corbiculainstance ofbut distinctive features0.80text
larger eyesinstance ofbut distinctive features0.80text
slightly smaller mandiblesinstance ofbut distinctive features0.80text

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