Congregation Sites and Sleeping Roost of Male Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Very little is known about stingless bee reproductive biology or male behaviour. In this note we provide the first observations on the male aggregations (congregation sites and roosting sites) of some stingless bee species. Our observations show that males of two stingless bee species can congregate...

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Main Authors: Charles Fernando dos Santos, Cristiano Menezes, Ayrton Vollet-Neto, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2014-06-01
Series:Sociobiology
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/ojs/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/18