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Pot-Honey of Six Meliponines from Amboró National Park, Bolivia

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A meliponiculture project in Amboró National Park, Southeast Bolivia, uses six species of stingless bees: “erereú choca” Melipona brachychaeta, “erereú barcina” Melipona grandis, “obobosí” Scaptotrigona depilis, “suro negro” Scaptotrigona polysticta, “suro choco” Scaptotrigona near to xanthotricha, and “señorita” Tetragonisca fiebrigi. The annual yield of stingless bee products (honey, pollen, propolis) is provided here. We also studied the pot honey produced by these species, chemistry (moisture, ash, pH, free acidity, reducing sugars, sucrose), mineral contents (Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, P, Zn), microbes (mesophilic bacteria, molds, yeasts), human sensory responses to selected components, and networking needed for marketing considerations.

Our forests wait to be discovered, shaped by David W. Roubik’s interpretations of foraging bees and seminal work of Francisco Tomás-Barberán and Federico Ferreres on flavonoids of tropical honey

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Acknowledgments

To Dr. Silvia R.M. Pedro from the Biology Department, at Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, for the entomological identification of the Bolivian stingless bees, and to Dr. David W. Roubik for appreciated editorial care. To stingless bee-keepers from Amboró National Park in Bolivia.

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  1. Asociación Ecológica de Oriente, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

    Urbelinda Ferrufino

  2. Apitherapy and Bioactivity, Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela

    Patricia Vit

  3. Cancer Research Group, Discipline of Biomedical Science, The University of Sydney, Cumberland Campus C42, 75 East Street, Lidcombe, NSW, 1825, Australia

    Patricia Vit

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  1. Zumba Sur, University of the Andes, Villa Del Rio 8, Merida, 5101, Venezuela

    Patricia Vit

  2. Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirão Preto, 14040-901, São Paulo, Brazil

    Silvia R. M. Pedro

  3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama

    David Roubik

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Ferrufino, U., Vit, P. (2013). Pot-Honey of Six Meliponines from Amboró National Park, Bolivia. In: Vit, P., Pedro, S., Roubik, D. (eds) Pot-Honey. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7_29

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