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Angelita Stingless bee

Tetragonisca angustula

Description:

These are small bees, about 0.7 cm they build a nest on a wall by my house. They visit the flowers, they made a sour-sweet honey which is suppose to be good for cleaning people´s eyes acording to traditional medicine

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Angelita Stingless bee
Tetragonisca angustula


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6 Comments

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

Gracias por la ID ...

KristalWatrous
KristalWatrous 12 years ago

Stingless bees. JuanDiTrani can probably ID them.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Potter wasp

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

Uh it is a very soft white wax....

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

I will check...

auntnance123
auntnance123 12 years ago

Are they building that structure with grains of sand?

Jonathan Sequeira
Spotted by
Jonathan Sequeira

San José, Costa Rica

Spotted on Jun 25, 2011
Submitted on Jun 25, 2011

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