Pot-Honey - A legacy of stingless bees (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural areas, they nest in a diversity of sites and are found on the flowers of a broad diversity of crop plants. Their role in natural systems is barely studied but they almost certainly deserve that hallowed title of keystone species. They are popular with the general public and are greatly appreciated in zoos and gardens. The chapters of this book provide abundant further evidence of the ecological and economic importance of stingless bees.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Patricia Vit • Silvia R. M. Pedro • David Roubik
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	654
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-4959-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Invertebrates > Insects (entomology)
LSN:	1-4614-4959-6
Barcode:	9781461449591

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