Stingless Bee Species In Malaysia

Stingless bee is widely known as kelulut in malaysia.

Stingless bee species in malaysia. Nectar pollen honey honey pollen royal jelly mr honey bees farm. We are specialist in apis mellifera bees italian bees propolis honey pollen royal jelly beeswax. One of the indicators of the high biodiversity in malaysia is the pollinator species. Meliponini from eight genera were examined and revised based on 145 specimens from the collection of malaysian agricultural research and development institute mardi malaysian genome institute mgi and a sampling done in several stingless bee farms in peninsular malaysia.

Mardi is popularising the breeding of stingless bees. Langkawi black bee farm specializes in trigona bees. Sitiawan manjung perak malaysia west malaysia. The trigona itama being the largest of the species and the trigona minima the smallest.

In malaysia alone there are reportedly 30 known species of stingless bees known in malay as lebah kelulut. Previous reports showed that a total of 29 stingless bee species was recorded in peninsula malaysia and out of this 17 species were known to inhabit the virgin forest. Based on mardi s research there are 35 species of stingless bees in the peninsula while more can be found in sarawak. A total of 19 species of stingless bee apidae.

The literature review resulted in the inclusion of 40 studies assessing 522 honey samples from 67 different species of stingless bee habituating 12 countries from all over the world. Ornamentals such as turnera subulata. Stingless bees kelulut honey propolis. Fruit trees such as star fruit and rambutan.

Geniotrigona thoracica and heterotrigona itama are preferred stingless bee species for commercial honey production in malaysia. Preferred host plants for stingless bees. Stingless bees sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines are a large group of bees about 500 species comprising the tribe meliponini or subtribe meliponina according to other authors they belong in the family apidae and are closely related to common honey bees carpenter bees orchid bees and bumblebees. Malaysian stingless bee species posted by admin on march 25 2015 tidak ramai menyedari lebah kelulut mampu mendatangkan pendapatan lumayan walaupun serangga itu gemar menjadikan batang pokok sebagai habitat semula jadinya.

Flowering creepers such as honolulu creeper antigonon leptopus and passion fruit.