Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees ...

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 ...

Those small, misshapen apples you hate seeing at the supermarket? Turns out, you can blame bees — or the lack of the tiny, ...

Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...

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 ...

For decades, Peruvian law protected the honeybees brought over from Europe while completely ignoring the native stingless bees that actually keep the Amazon alive. This year, officials in Satipo, a ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...

Learn how stingless bees quietly sustain Amazonian forests — and how a new law is changing what happens when they’re harmed. For the first time in history, the law is recognizing an insect as a rights ...

Stingless bees are very social. Even though they do not have stingers they are very important for pollination. They also make honey that is used for medicine. You can find Stingless bees on four ...