A Critical View of Colony Losses in Managed Mayan Honey-Making Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in the Heart of Zona Maya

Villanueva-Gutiérrez, Rogel; Roubik, David W.; Colli-Ucán, Wilberto; Güemez-Ricalde, Francisco J.; Buchmann, Stephen L.

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“…Stingless bee keepers from Zona Maya in Mexico experienced colony losses of Melipona beecheii due to competition for food (Villanueva-Gutiérrez et al, 2013), especially in meliponaries with more than 100 nests. Besides the rescue of tradition, environmental protection is needed to achieve sustainable meliponiculture.…”

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Meliponini biodiversity and medicinal uses of pot-honey from El Oro province in Ecuador

Vit

Vargas

López

et al. 2015

Emir. J. Food Agric

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Meliponini biodiversity and medicinal uses of pot-honey from El Oro province in Ecuador

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Vargas

López

et al. 2015

Emir. J. Food Agric

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“…Much practical and academic work is being done about the best ways of keeping these bees, multiplying their colonies, and exploring the honey they produce (Cortopassi-Laurino et al., 2006, Villanueva-Gutiérrez et al., 2013, Jaffé et al., 2015). Melipona scutellaris is most known in the Northeast of Brazil.…”

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Phylogenetic analysis of Monascus and new species from honey, pollen and nests of stingless bees

Barbosa¹,

Leong²,

Pettersson³

et al. 2017

Studies in Mycology

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The genus Monascus was described by van Tieghem (1884) to accommodate M. ruber and M. mucoroides, two species with non-ostiolate ascomata. Species delimitation in the genus is still mainly based on phenotypic characters, and taxonomic studies that include sequence data are limited. The genus is of economic importance. Species are used in fermented Asian foods as food colourants (e.g. ‘red rice’ (ang-kak, angka)) and found as spoilage organisms, and recently Monascus was found to be essential in the lifecycle of stingless bees. In this study, a polyphasic approach was applied combining morphological characters, ITS, LSU, β-tubulin, calmodulin and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit sequences and extrolite data, to delimit species and to study phylogenetic relationships in Monascus. Furthermore, 30 Monascus isolates from honey, pollen and nests of stingless bees in Brazil were included. Based on this polyphasic approach, the genus Monascus is resolved in nine species, including three new species associated with stingless bees (M. flavipigmentosus sp. nov., M. mellicola sp. nov., M. recifensis sp. nov., M. argentinensis, M. floridanus, M. lunisporas, M. pallens, M. purpureus, M. ruber), and split in two new sections (section Floridani sect. nov., section Rubri sect. nov.). Phylogenetic analysis showed that the xerophile Monascus eremophilus does not belong in Monascus and monophyly in Monascus is restored with the transfer of M. eremophilus to Penicillium (P. eremophilum comb. nov.). A list of accepted and excluded Monascus and Basipetospora species is given, together with information on (ex-)types cultures and barcode sequence data.

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“…From pre‐Columbian times onward, over 1000 years, forests over the Yucatan peninsula have been systematically cleared, first for agriculture and, more recently, for pasture and urbanization, posing severe threats to wildlife (Islebe et al ., ). One example of the negative effect of forest degradation in this area is the disappearance in many parts of the Yucatan of feral populations of the emblematic Mayan stingless bee Melipona beecheii ( Mb ) Bennet, 1831 (González‐Acereto et al ., ; Villanueva‐Gutiérrez et al ., ).…”

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Pollination services of Africanized honey bees and nativeMelipona beecheiito buzz-pollinated annatto (Bixa orellanaL.) in the neotropics

Caro

Moo-Valle

Alfaro³

et al. 2016

Agr Forest Entomol

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1 Africanized honey bees (AHBs) are the predominant flower visitors of many plants in the neotropics, although little evidence is available on their efficiency as pollinators on native crops. 2 Annatto (Bixa orellana) is a buzz-pollinated neotropical tree. We compared the pollination service provided by AHBs and native Melipona beecheii (Mb) to annatto in the Yucatan. As a result of the different abilities of both species to sonicate, a prediction of the present study is that AHBs on individual visits would result in less efficient pollinators on this crop. 3 A higher frequency of AHBs on flowers (73.8%) compared with Mb (21.3%) was found. However, AHBs deposited significantly less pollen on the stigma and produced less fruits, with fewer seeds and weight, than Mb. A higher pollination index efficiency was obtained for Mb (0.9) compared with AHBs (0.6). 4 AHBs did not sonicate annatto and gleaned the pollen released after Mb visits, which suggests that they act as commensals of the latter. 5 By acting as commensals, AHBs, despite their high abundance, appear to marginally contribute to the pollination of annatto. Studies conducted under scenarios with a differential abundance of AHBs and efficient sonicating species are necessary to test this hypothesis on annatto and other buzz-pollinated plants in the neotropics.

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A Critical View of Colony Losses in Managed Mayan Honey-Making Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in the Heart of Zona Maya

Cited by 36 publications

References 20 publications

Meliponini biodiversity and medicinal uses of pot-honey from El Oro province in Ecuador

Meliponini biodiversity and medicinal uses of pot-honey from El Oro province in Ecuador

Phylogenetic analysis of Monascus and new species from honey, pollen and nests of stingless bees

Pollination services of Africanized honey bees and nativeMelipona beecheiito buzz-pollinated annatto (Bixa orellanaL.) in the neotropics

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