Las abejas sin aguijón (Tribu Meliponini) en los agroecosistemas de América Latina

Real-Luna, Natalia; Rivera-Hernández, Jaime Ernesto; Alcántara-Salinas, Graciela; Rojas-Malavasi, Geovanna; Morales-Vargas, Ana Paulina; Pérez-Sato, Juan Antonio

doi:10.29312/remexca.v13i2.2866

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“…We found that the most frequent floral visitors to coffee were A. mellifera and three stingless bees T. angustula , S. mexicana and P. bilineata . Previous studies have pointed out that stingless bees might be playing a potential role as coffee pollinators in our region, as suggested by a review of 46 crops in Latin America (review in Real‐Luna et al 2022). It has also been observed that A. mellifera is an important pollinator on coffee crops (Manrique & Thimann 2002; Raw & Free 1977; Roubik 2002).…”

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Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Escobar‐González,

Landaverde‐González,

Casiá‐Ajché

et al. 2023

Austral Entomology

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Changes in floral visitors' diversity and community composition have been reported to affect coffee production, which optimal growing conditions are cool to warm tropical climates found in the coffee belt. However, few studies have focused on understanding how insects' foraging behaviour (e.g., contact with floral reproductive organs) relates with coffee production. Thus, it is important to consider floral visitors' foraging behaviour, as this can influence the transfer of conspecific pollen required for plant fertilisation, the efficiency of floral visitors and improve the pollination service provided. Here, we assessed how foraging behaviour of honeybees and stingless bees affects coffee fruit set and fruit weight in conventional and agroecological managed crops. We quantified local floral resources and recorded diversity, abundance and behaviour of floral visitors at eight pairs of sites with agroecological and conventional management systems to assess how foraging behaviour of honeybees and stingless bees affects coffee fruit set and fruit weight in both types of managed crops. We found that the managed honeybee Apis mellifera and three wild bees Tetragonisca angustula, Scaptotrigona mexicana and Partamona bilineata are the principal floral visitors of coffee crops in Guatemala, whose total abundance but not richness was higher in agroecological areas. Regarding their behaviours, we observed that the average number of flowers visited by P. bilineata and its behaviour of touching the nectaries of coffee flowers were positively related to fruit set, while only the percentage of A. mellifera carrying pollen was positively related with fruit weight, suggesting that although A. mellifera is found in large quantities, wild bees are also efficient pollinators of coffee in the region. Our findings also suggest that in other tropical regions where coffee is grown and honeybees have been observed as a primary pollinator, wild bees may play an important role when considering their behaviour. In the same way, coffee farms in Guatemala are a representation of the diversity of agroecosystems found worldwide, and thus, the study of foraging behaviour of managed and wild bees and the conservation of wild bee species in different coffee agroecosystems should be emphasised to improve the production of coffee and other cash crops.

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confidence: 63%

Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Escobar‐González,

Landaverde‐González,

Casiá‐Ajché

et al. 2023

Austral Entomology

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“…Las abejas sin aguijón es uno de los grupos más abundantes del Neotrópico que se caracterizan por ser polinizadores de los diferentes ecosistemas (Rasmussen, 2004) y se las usa como bioindicadores que permite implementar estrategias de conservación y manejo sostenible para las especies de importancia cultural, ecológica y económica (Real-Luna et al, 2022). Además dentro de su biología y las formas de vida de las abejas se basa en tres estrategias como: anidación, reproducción y comportamiento: social, solitaria y cleptoparásita.…”

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La meliponicultura: una alternativa de conservación y aprovechamiento sostenible de abejas nativas en la Amazonía ecuatoriana

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Las abejas son los insectos más importantes sobre la tierra, debido a los procesos de polinización que realizan en los diferentes ecosistemas, además de los productos que producen que ayudan a la seguridad alimentaria de las naciones. En las últimas décadas se presentaron reportes sobre reducción de polinizadores a nivel mundial, causados por procesos de deforestación, uso indiscriminado de agroquímicos, cambio climático, entre otros. Las abejas nativas sin aguijón son especies de abejas propias de los bosques tropicales, que benefician a la naturaleza y a los humanos con la producción de miel y polen. La meliponicultura es una actividad que fue abandonada por muchos años, sin embargo está ganando espacio por el valor que generan sus productos. Actualmente en la Amazonía ecuatoriana se desarrollan prácticas socioculturales locales que promueven la producción y reproducción de la meliponicultura, promoviendo la conservación de la biodiversidad de un entorno particular; así tenemos los procesos de transferencia de tecnología hacia la sociedad por parte de las universidades, que buscan fomentar la producción. Se concluye que la producción de abejas nativas sin aguijón es una alternativa de producción económicamente sustentable para las familias de la Amazonía ecuatoriana; además de ser una forma de conservar las especies ante inminentes procesos que aportan a la reducción de polinizadores. La implementación de abejas nativas es una actividad que puede ser realizada en los predios familiares, con producciones de alto valor nutricional que aportan a la economía y a la alimentación de la población.

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“…The Meliponini or stingless bee tribe of the Apoidea, is distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia and America (Crane, 1992). The 550 described species (58 genera) of meliponines pollinate the native flora and agroecosystems of these regions with which they have evolved (Grüter, 2020;Real-Luna et al, 2022).…”

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Stingless bee keeping: Biocultural conservation and agroecological education

Maya

Rodríguez‐Robles²,

Gutiérrez³

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionStingless bee breeding, also called Meliponiculture, has existed for thousands of years in Mesoamerica among a variety of rural and indigenous cultures. Due to its biocultural importance, it represents a perfect device for agroecological education and scaling, as well as pollinator conservation. At the same time, promoting agroecological transitions are necessary for conserving the cultural heritage that meliponicultures represent.MethodsWe organized a series of activities based on this premise: documenting and dialoguing “saberes contemporáneos” (contemporary knowledges), design and implementation of community agroecological workshops, guided visits at the institutional Meliponary at ECOSUR Villahermosa and promotion of agroecological and biocultural school gardens, all in Tabasco, México. We used “diálogo de saberes” (knowledge dialogues) as a methodological approach, promoting respect for the contribution of the diversity of ontoepistemologies involved. We drew on the ideas of several pedagogues, mainly from popular education and critical pedagogy frameworks.Results and discussionWe identified characteristics of stingless bees and meliponicultures that make them excellent mediators for biocultural conservation and agroecological education: the complex, deep and beautiful relation between humans and bees; meliponiculture's ecological and cultural importance; stingless bees as pollinators par excellence, landscape connectors, and charismatic species; the association of bees with values around work and community; meliponicultures' symbolic relevance and emotional significance; meliponicultures as promoters of intergenerational dialogue; bee keeping as an activity of caring for the continuity of life; sensory stimulation through contact with colonies; learning through doing in the practice of beekeeping; meliponicultures as an activity requiring skill but no special equipment; and meliponiculture's productive potential. This confluence of teaching-learning opportunities, cultural and moral values, care for the land and biocultural diversity, and economic potential makes meliponiculture a potent catalyst for agroecological learning and transitions.

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Las abejas sin aguijón (Tribu Meliponini) en los agroecosistemas de América Latina

Cited by 8 publications

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Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

La meliponicultura: una alternativa de conservación y aprovechamiento sostenible de abejas nativas en la Amazonía ecuatoriana

Stingless bee keeping: Biocultural conservation and agroecological education

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