stingless bee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stingless bee
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Pesticides, climate change and competition with the honey bee, which is better adapted to agricultural areas than the stingless bee, introduces more strain.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024
The Amazon is home to hundreds of species of stingless bee, but as deforestation converts the tropical landscape into farms and ranches, these and other native pollinators are in danger of disappearing.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024
Mayan bee keepers, like bee keepers in many other cultures, created a fermented drink, Balche, made from the honey of the stingless bee and tree bark.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2017
The Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is notorious for inciting war, usually to usurp the hive of another.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2015
The Italian stingless bee has very lately been introduced into the United States.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
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