Stingless Bees in nature in Thailand© Saichol Campan/Shutterstock.com Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees have ...

For a long time, insects have barely registered in environmental law. Even as scientists warned that pollinators were disappearing and food systems were becoming more fragile, bees and other insects ...

Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...

Native to the tropics, these pollinators are taking a lead role in one of the latest efforts to conserve the Amazon rainforest. Melipona eburnea, a species of bee, is native to the Amazon. Unlike the ...

We’ve departed from the glistening shores of Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the last two weeks learning about terrestrial ecology since I last wrote. We went from snorkeling daily to ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...

In a groundbreaking move with international significance, insects—specifically stingless bees from the Peruvian Amazon—have been granted legally enshrined rights for the first time. But what lies ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

Stingless bees have pollinated much of the Amazon for 80 million years and support key crops like cacao, coffee, and bananas. In 2025, municipalities in Peru became the first in the world to grant an ...