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Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan
BackgroundIndigenous and non-indigenous people in subtropical and temperate areas of Bhutan share an intricate relationship with stingless bees for...
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Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia
BackgroundStingless bees have a great value as main pollinators of wild flowering and cultivated plants, thus playing a fundamental role in the...
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Traditional ecological knowledge and non-food uses of stingless bee honey in Kenya’s last pocket of tropical rainforest
BackgroundStingless bee honey (SBH) is a natural remedy and therapeutic agent traditionally used by local communities across the (sub-)tropics....
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In vivo evaluation of pharmacological properties of Argentine stingless bee geopropolis
BackgroundPropolis is a natural product that has been widely utilized as medicine and dietary supplement because of its broad biological activities....
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Do emotions influence the motivations and preferences of keepers of stingless bees?
BackgroundAccording to the biophilia hypothesis, an emotional affiliation with nature has been inherited during human biocultural evolution. Research...
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Engaging indigenous and academic knowledge on bees in the Amazon: implications for environmental management and transdisciplinary research
BackgroundThis paper contributes to the development of theoretical and methodological approaches that aim to engage indigenous, technical and...
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Melliferous insects and the uses assigned to their products in the northern Yungas of Salta, Argentina
BackgroundThe order Hymenoptera comprises melliferous insects (bees, wasps and bumblebees); among them, stingless bees comprise a diverse group of...
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Meliponiculture in Quilombola communities of Ipiranga and Gurugi, Paraíba state, Brazil: an ethnoecological approach
BackgroundThe Quilombola communities of Ipiranga and Gurugi, located in Atlantic Rainforest in Southern of Paraíba state, have stories that are...
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Diversity, local knowledge and use of stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in the municipality of Nocupétaro, Michoacan, Mexico
BackgroundStingless bees were significant resources managed by Mesoamerican peoples during pre-Columbian times and remain important in particular...
