INFLUENCE OF HIVE DESIGN ON SEASONAL PERFORMANCE OF STINGLESS HONEY BEE, Tetragonula iridipennis (Smith)
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2016-08-03
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
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Stingless bees or dammer bees are found in most parts of the world and these bees
considered as valuable domestic species. Rearing of these bees is called as meliponiculture,
(Heard, 1999). Meliponiculture has been practiced in many countries including various
parts of Latin America.
Stingless bees occur in all tropical regions of the world. Hundreds of species have
been described. These belong to the super family Apoidea, family Apidae and sub family
Meliponinae, which is one among three subfamilies of Apidae, which consists of eight
genera, having 15 sub-genera. Meliponinae consists of two tribes Meliponini and Trigonini
(Wille,1983).
Trigona is the largest and most widely distributed genus, which includes 130 species
under ten sub-genera. Melipona consists of 50 species and confined to the Neotropics. All
Asian and African stingless bee species belong to the tribe Trigonini. The various genera
in this tribe include Trigona, Plebeia. Tetragona and Nanotrigona (Camargo et al., 1988)
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