Pot-Honey A legacy of stingless bees
The meliponines, stingless honey-making bees, encircle the tropical world and penetrate every forest there. This book brings together and synthesizes, on a global scale and for the first time, information on these bees as honey producers and natural alchemists. Their ability to store their food in f...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- 26. Tetragonisca angustula pot-honey compared to Apis mellifera honey from Brazil
- 27. Honey of Colombian native bees
- 28. The pot-honey of Guatemalan stingless bees
- 29. Pot-honey of six species of Meliponini from Amboró National Park in Bolivia
- 30. Electronic nose and physicochemical analysis to differentiate Colombian pot-honey
- 31. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a method for molecular profiling and prediction of geographical and entomological origin of pot-honey
- 32. Non-aromatic organic acids of honeys
- V. Biological properties
- 33. Flavonoids in stingless-bee and honey-bee honeys
- 34. Antioxidant activity of pot-honey
- 35. Use of honey in cancer prevention and therapy
- 36. Bioactivity of honey and propolis from Tetragonula laeviceps in Thailand
- 37. Costa Rican pot- honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect
- 38. Immunological properties of bee products
- 39. Chemical properties of propolis collected by stingless bees
- VI. Marketing and standards of pot-honey
- 40. Production and marketing of pot-honey
- Appendix
- 1. Taxonomic index of bee species
- 2. List of bee taxa
- 3. Common names of stingless bees
- 4. Taxonomic index of plant families
- 5. List of plant taxa used by bees
- 6. Common names of plants used for nesting by stingless bees
- 7. Common names of medicinal plants used with honey by Mayas
- 8. Microorganisms associated to stingless bees or used to test antimicrobial activity
- 9. Summary of meliponine and Apis mellifera honey composition
- 10. Information of collected stingless bees
- Subject list
- Authors list
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Origin, biodiversity and behavior of the stingless bees (Meliponini)
- 1. The Meliponini
- 2. Historical biogeography of the Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) of the Neotropical region
- 3. Australian stingless bees
- 4. Stingless bees from Venezuela
- 5. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana
- 6. Stingless bees of Guatemala
- 7. Stingless bees of Costa Rica
- 8. Stingless bees in Argentina
- 9. Mexican stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, biogeography, and indigenous knowledge
- 10. The role of useful microorganisms to stingless bees and to stingless bee keeping
- 11. Microorganisms associated with stingless bees
- 12. Stingless bee food location communication: from the flowers to the honey pots
- 13. On competition and the diversity of food-collection strategies in stingless bees
- II. Stingless bees in culture, traditions and environment
- 14. Stingless bees: An historical perspective. 15. Medicinal uses of Melipona beecheii pot-honey, by the ancient Maya
- 16. Hans Staden’s first report from 1557 on collection of stingless bee honey by an indigenous tribe in Brazil
- 17. The Melipona bee in the scientific world: Western cultural views
- 18. Taxonomy as a tool for conservation of African stingless bees and their honey
- 19. Effects of human disturbance and habitat fragmentation on stingless bees
- III. What plants are used by the stingless bees?
- 20. Palynology serving the stingless bees
- 21. How to be a bee botanist using pollen spectra
- 22. Plants used by stingless bees for nesting and as floral resources
- 23. Botanical origin of pot-honey Tetragonisca angustula Latreille in Colombia
- IV. Sensory attributes and composition of pot-honey
- 24. Sensory evaluation of pot-honey
- 25. Melipona favosa pot-honey fromVenezuela