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Stingless Bees

Meliponini sp.

Description:

These bees build tube-like tunnels above the ground.

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17 Comments

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 9 years ago

Very cool pam! Definitely related to my spotting. Must be a different species that builds the lip on the top.

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

thanks Heema and ChristieEdmonds for your comments. Sorry I missed them earlier.

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

thanks drP and ceherzog for your interest...

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

thanks J, Lauren, Argy Bee, KarinL & Jolly for your comments...

ChristieEdmonds
ChristieEdmonds 11 years ago

That is so interesting!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

amazing.

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

@LaurenZarate, I guess the monsoons are heavy, not sure if that is the reason they make them so tall... It felt sort of crispy, firm and rough. Not sure how far it went down under the earth, but there must have been some sort of nest there.

ceherzog
ceherzog 11 years ago

How interesting!

drP
drP 11 years ago

That is so cool!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Very nice pamsai

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Fascinating!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

What fascinating constructions. Great spotting Pam. Please replace 'flies' with 'bees' :-)

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 11 years ago

What remarkable structures and very tall too! Are there heavy rains there for which they are making protectively tall entrance tubes? Is it fragile? Is it waxy? What are they making it out of?

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

That's terrific!

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

thanks forestdragon and auntnance123 for the ID

auntnance123
auntnance123 11 years ago

I think you've found it with the stingless bee: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/684...

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

Wow! I want to say that those are some type of bee, possibly Tribe Meliponini. Fascinating structure!

I found these. http://stock-clip.com/video-footage/meli...
http://brianmarv.wordpress.com/2013/01/1...

Hope this helps!

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Spotted on Mar 7, 2013
Submitted on Mar 14, 2013

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