Cultural, Psychological, and Organoleptic Factors Related to the Use of Stingless Bees by Rural Residents of Northern Misiones, Argentina

Zamudio, Fernando; Hilgert, Norma I.

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“…The breeding of stingless bees is known as meliponiculture and dates back to the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Mesoamerica, as documented through ancient paintings [ 20 – 22 ]. These bees are bred mainly for their honey, which they stock in cerumen pots, making it relatively easy to harvest [ 23 ], and for other important resources obtained from the hives such as cerumen, propolis, and pollen [ 18 , 24 ]. Hive products are used for a wide variety of religious, medical, nutritional, and economic purposes [ 16 , 25 , 26 ].…”

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Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia

Adler

Escóbar-Márquez

Solis-Soto

et al. 2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background Stingless bees have a great value as main pollinators of wild flowering and cultivated plants, thus playing a fundamental role in the maintenance of biodiversity and food security in Latin America. Despite their importance, stingless bees face numerous threats causing alarming population declines. Moreover, stingless bees have a great cultural and traditional value, since most products from the hive are used for a wide variety of purposes. A growing number of initiatives are encouraging the breeding of these bees, through training courses and modern management techniques. This study documents the knowledge on stingless bees and their products that meliponiculturists from the Chaco region of Bolivia have, as well as the influence that meliponiculture initiatives have on the management and general knowledge of the bees. Methods Local richness and diversity of stingless bees was calculated using Hill numbers. Structured interviews were conducted with 59 meliponiculturists in order to characterize traditional and formal knowledge on stingless bees and meliponiculture. Generalized linear models were applied to assess the influence of training courses on the management of the bees. Also, a relative cultural importance index was calculated for each species. Results Twelve Meliponini species were identified, and 15 local names were reported with morphological, defensiveness behavior, and nest description. There was no significant difference in the knowledge between different ethnical backgrounds or ages. A significant difference was observed in the use of supplementary feeding and assisted division, but none in the success in racking hives or in pest management, regarding the number or courses taken. The relative cultural importance index recorded 30 specific uses for bee products grouped in four categories, from which 29 were attributed (but not exclusively) to Tetragonisca angustula, making it the most versatile species. Conclusions The products of the hive, especially honey, are used for a wide variety of purposes, mostly in medicine. These uses are mostly attributed to just one species, T. angustula, in coincidence with what was taught in meliponiculture training courses by NGOs. The influence of formal knowledge is mostly positive, but it is recommended that other meliponini species are taken into account as well.

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Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia

Adler

Escóbar-Márquez

Solis-Soto

et al. 2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Recently it has become an important global economic commodity [FAO, 2021]. Hive bees also have social and cultural significance worldwide [Prendergast et al, 2021, Perichon et al, 2020, Zamudio and Hilgert, 2018]. As a result of their value to humankind, understanding and supporting bees has long been, and remains today, of great importance.…”

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A Framework for Better Sensor-Based Beehive Health Monitoring

Zaman

Dorin

2022

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Hive bees provide essential pollination services to human agriculture. Managed honey bees in particular pollinate many crops, but also create honey and other bee products that are now of global economic importance. Key aspects of honey bee behaviour can be understood by observing hives. Hence, the limitations of manual observation are increasingly being addressed by new technologies that automate and extend the reach of hive monitoring. Here we propose a framework to classify and clarify the potential for sensor-assisted hive monitoring to inform apiculture and, ultimately, improve hive bee management. This framework considers hive monitoring approaches across three newly proposed categories: Operational monitoring, Investigative monitoring, and Predictive monitoring. These categories constitute a new ``OIP Framework'' of hive monitoring. Each category has its own requirements for underlying technology that includes sensors and ICT resources we outline. Each category is associated with particular outcomes and benefits for apiculture and hive health monitoring detailed here. Application of these three classes of sensor-assisted hive monitoring can simplify understanding and improve best-practice management of hive bees. Our survey and classification of hive monitoring to date show that it is seldom practiced beyond honey bees, despite the need to understand bumble bees and stingless bees also. Perhaps unsurprisingly, sensor-based hive monitoring is shown to remain primarily a practice of developed nations. Yet we show how all countries, especially developing nations, stand to gain substantially from the benefits improved sensor-based hive monitoring offers. These include a better understanding of environmental change, an increased ability to manage pollination, an ability to respond rapidly to hive health issues such as pests and pathogens, and even an ability to react quickly to the danger posed to insects and humans alike by extreme events such as floods and fires. Finally, we anticipate that the future of hive monitoring lies in the application of Predictive monitoring, such that a hive's anticipated future state can be preemptively managed by beekeepers working iteratively with novel hive monitoring technologies.

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“…Few studies have analyzed the relationship between cultural and ecological aspects of animal salience (e.g., Gosler 2017; Silva Neto et al 2017; Wajner et al 2019; Zamudio and Hilgert 2017) and, in general, ecological salience estimators (such as abundance, availability, biomass, dominance) were obtained from the perception of informants and interpreted within a resource use framework (obtaining food or medicine).…”

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“Weaving” Different Knowledge Systems through Studying Salience of Wild Animals in a Dryland Area of Argentina

Campos

Moreno

Cappa

et al. 2021

Journal of Ethnobiology

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The current biodiversity conservation framework explores "nature-people" relationships, recognizing culture's central role. This study aimed to combine local knowledge with scientific ecological data to better understand the relationships between wild animals and local people. We worked in a village (Los Baldecitos) located in the area of influence of Ischigualasto Provincial Park (San Juan, Argentina). We conducted 20 free listing interviews and 12 semi-structured and open ones. We analyzed how the overall salience of different species (established through free listing and cognitive salience index) can be explained by ecological (measured through species occupancy models) and cultural (expressed in interviews) aspects of salience. The cognitive salience index and estimated animal occupancy showed a positive correlation, although it was not statistically significant (Spearman's Rho 5 0.48, P 5 0.095, N 5 17). This could mean that cultural aspects (faunal uses, perception related to attitudes and to nature conservation) were relevant in explaining overall salience. Ten species had the highest and most statistically significant salience and were recorded by camera traps. Some of them share spaces with people (village, water points, corrals, and domestic animal areas), and others were less likely to share habitats where people are present. Wild species have cultural value related to uses and acceptance due to material (tangible benefits, ecological functions) and non-material (affectionate, emotional, aesthetic, presence in oral expression) values. Two carnivores elicited negative reactions because of their predatory damage to domestic animals. This study demonstrates methods to interweave local and scientific knowledge to understand peoplenature relationships in context.

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Cultural, Psychological, and Organoleptic Factors Related to the Use of Stingless Bees by Rural Residents of Northern Misiones, Argentina

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia

Stingless bees: uses and management by meliponiculturist women in the Chaco region of Bolivia

A Framework for Better Sensor-Based Beehive Health Monitoring

“Weaving” Different Knowledge Systems through Studying Salience of Wild Animals in a Dryland Area of Argentina

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