Bees play a key role in maintaining healthy terrestrial ecosystems by pollinating plants.
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are a diverse clade of social bees (> 500 species) with a …

The conservation status of pollinators and pollination in Latin America (LA) is reviewed. The
knowledge regarding native and managed pollinators (eg, honeybee and stingless bees) …

Agricultural intensification drives biodiversity loss and is associated with bee declines. Bees
are highly sensitive to environmental change, and while their diversity declines in simplified …

Western honeybees (Apis Mellifera) serve extremely important roles in our ecosystem and
economics as they are responsible for pollinating $215 billion dollars annually over the …

Pollination is a vitally important function in nature and becomes an ecosystem service
because it influences the food and nutritional security for people. However, the contribution …

Urban areas represent a spatially small impact in relation to other land-uses such as
livestock and agriculture, but they undergo rapid changes. Such changes involve their size …

Major declines of insect pollinators are a worldwide concern. Such losses threaten human
food supplies and ecosystem functions. Monocultures of pastures used to feed cattle are …

Megachile amparo (González, Revista Colombiana De Entomología 32 (1): 93–96, 2006) is
the only high Andean leaf-cutter bee reported in Colombia and is possibly endemic to the …

In this work, populations of adult and immature honeybees and their honey production are
studied through mathematical and statistical modeling approaches. Those models are …

Insect population decline has been reported worldwide, including those of pollinators
important for ecosystem services. Therefore, conservation actions which rely on available …