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  title info:
    title: Pot-Honey
    sub title: A legacy of stingless bees
  name:
    name part: Vit, Patricia.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Pedro, Silvia R. M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Roubik, David.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 697 p. 127 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The meliponines, stingless honey-making bees, encircle the tropical world and penetrate every forest there. This book brings together and synthesizes, on a global scale and for the first time, information on these bees as honey producers and natural alchemists. Their ability to store their food in flexible cerumen ‘pots’ made from wax and resin enables them to produce honey for which the world has no other source. These little known and often rare denizens of remote reaches of the globe have found a way to produce honey and survive in the permanently wet and unforgiving rain forests, since before the continents of Africa and South America split apart 100 million years ago. In Australia, we find them equipped to survive in cold deserts, and in the Amazon some feed within the nests of other social bees, utilize flesh of dead animals, or even live among scale bugs that give them food and building material. Some are obligate parasites, stealing the brood food from inside nests of other meliponines. Pot-honey is a minor honey in the market but a major honey in the forest, produced by many hundreds of flowering plants and demanding integrated conservation. Complementing the unifloral honeys of Apis mellifera, many more pot-honeys are yet to be appreciated by the public. The analytical corpus developed to study and standardize honey produced in combs is also valid for pot-honey. Honey ferments inside the nests of Meliponini, and the process continues after harvest. According to A. mellifera standards it is spoiled, yet a more medicinal product results and may remodel our concept of honey. As shown here, the meliponines, support a legacy of bees interacting with human culture, traditions, art, science and philosophy.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Origin, biodiversity and behavior of the stingless bees (Meliponini) -- 1. The Meliponini -- 2. Historical biogeography of the Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) of the Neotropical region -- 3. Australian stingless bees -- 4. Stingless bees from Venezuela -- 5. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana -- 6. Stingless bees of Guatemala -- 7. Stingless bees of Costa Rica -- 8. Stingless bees in Argentina -- 9. Mexican stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, biogeography, and indigenous knowledge -- 10. The role of useful microorganisms to stingless bees and to stingless bee keeping -- 11. Microorganisms associated with stingless bees -- 12. Stingless bee food location communication: from the flowers to the honey pots -- 13. On competition and the diversity of food-collection strategies in stingless bees -- II. Stingless bees in culture, traditions and environment -- 14. Stingless bees: An historical perspective. 15. Medicinal uses of Melipona beecheii pot-honey, by the ancient Maya -- 16. Hans Staden’s first report from 1557 on collection of stingless bee honey by an indigenous tribe in Brazil -- 17. The Melipona bee in the scientific world: Western cultural views -- 18. Taxonomy as a tool for conservation of African stingless bees and their honey -- 19. Effects of human disturbance and habitat fragmentation on stingless bees -- III. What plants are used by the stingless bees? -- 20. Palynology serving the stingless bees -- 21. How to be a bee botanist using pollen spectra -- 22. Plants used by stingless bees for nesting and as floral resources -- 23. Botanical origin of pot-honey Tetragonisca angustula Latreille in Colombia -- IV. Sensory attributes and composition of pot-honey -- 24. Sensory evaluation of pot-honey -- 25. Melipona favosa pot-honey fromVenezuela -- 26. Tetragonisca angustula pot-honey compared to Apis mellifera honey from Brazil -- 27. Honey of Colombian native bees -- 28. The po…
  note: edited by Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Food
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Food Science
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781461449607
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7
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