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Maya Stinglessbee

Melipona beecheii

Photo by Juan DiTrani
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A female worker bee returning to the nest with pollen load

Notes:

Mayan bees are social insects and have been used by the Maya indians for honey production for almost a thousand of years. Now they are endangered, mostly by the lost of the forest and the introduction of the african honey bee.

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