permaculture

["Charles de Matas" <cdematas@hotmail.com>]

I saw the comments below on a caribbean list.  I wouldn't mind "keeping" 
stingless bees.  I would like to find out more about how I can help create a 
suitable habitat for them.

Charles
T&T

<<Indigenous stingless bees (Meliponinae) are losing ground to development.  
They need dense vegetation, since their foraging range is in the order of 
100 metres from the hive, as opposed to 5km plus of European and africanized 
bees (Apininae).  They are the natural pollinators of some neotropical crops 
such as vanilla orchids, Passiflora (passion/granadilla/pomme de liane), 
indigenous cucurbits (squash/pumpkins).
> >

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