Marcio Karai straddles a tree trunk near his home on the outskirts of Brazil’s Sao Paulo, setting a small cube before him. The wooden box will serve as a new hive for a colony of native Mirim ...
Brazilian part-time beekeeper Luiz Lustosa lifts the lid on a wooden hive. The reaction is instant, and angry, as thousands of bees envelop him in a buzzing cloud. Lustosa wears no specialized suit or ...
Researchers have built the first sensory wheel for honeys from Brazil's endemic Caatinga biome, linking pollen profiles to ...
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The forest needs the bees: Indigenous beekeepers on the front line of Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Marcio Verá Mirim grew up listening to a family story. His grandfather, a leader of the semi-nomadic Guarani Mbyá Indigenous people, had dreamed that one day the sun would cease to rise and the sky ...
New female farmers that are part of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) are embracing beekeeping and agroforestry on land that was previously unproductive and worn out by pesticides and ...
Brazilian geneticist Warwick Estevam Kerr saw a need for a new and improved bee species back in 1956. Backed by the government, his work sought to breed honey bees for higher productivity in tropical ...
In just three months, more than 500 million bees were found dead by beekeepers in four Brazilian states — 400 million in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 million in São Paulo, 50 million in Santa Catarina and 45 ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: In 1957, a species of South African honey bees escaped an experimental apiary in Brazil, interbreeding with local European honey bees and creating ...
A consortium of researchers funded by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and FAPESP has sequenced the genome of Frieseomelitta varia, a native stingless bee (common ...
Africanized honey bees are a hybrid species that originated in Brazil and have spread to 13 southern and southwestern U.S. states. Known as "killer bees," their danger comes from their highly ...
More than 500 million bees have died in Brazil in the last three months. In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, 400 million dead bees were found - with beekeepers in four states reporting the mass deaths.
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