Flowering plants and pollinators are in a mutualistic association, where pollinators collect
floral resources and plants receive pollination services. Bees and other pollinators are …

Honey bees and stingless bees are generalist visitors of several wild and cultivated plants.
They forage with a high degree of floral fidelity and thereby help in the pollination services of …

This study investigated the suitability of honey sample collection methods for determining
the botanical origin of honey through palynological analysis. We used three methods to …

The yield of many crops benefits from pollinating insects; thus, recently reported declines in
pollinator abundance and diversity are concerning for global food production. The pollinator …

For successful establishment of meliponiculture with Trigona iridipennis Smith, several
attributes such as nesting substrates, orientations, elevation, internal characteristics of nests …

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that pollinator sharing among cashew
(Anacardium occidentale L.) and co-blooming magnetic bee-friendly plants facilitate higher …

Stingless bees collect plant latex and resin to produce cerumen and propolis. Cerumen is
primarily used for nest construction, such as brood cells, storage pots, and involucrum …

In the present work, bee foraging plants were determined by palynological analysis of
colony stored samples (honey and pollen) of Apis dorsata collected from southern West …

One-hundred-and-five species corresponding to 38 families were identified through pollen
analyses of 53 Apis dorsata honeys collected from Bankura and Paschim Medinipur districts …

Little is known about the agroecological implications of the Asian honey bee Apis cerana
Fabricius in its vast native range including southeast India. To identify the foraging …