A small, stingless bee may be able to do two jobs at once on Brazilian coffee farms: raise yields while also fitting into ...

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 ...

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, founder of Amazon Research Internacional, and Constanza ...

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 ...

The team used a product from native stingless bees to extract bioactive compounds - such as caffeine - from chocolate manufacturing waste. They say the process adds nutritional and commercial value to ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted ...

Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees have been pollinating 80% of the Amazon’s flora, including such crops as ...