Surveys of local Euglossini faunas have largely focused on forests, considering the relationship that orchid bees have with such environments. So, large areas of Caatinga and even Cerrado are yet to ...

Keywords: Climate Change, Euglossini, Ex situ conservation, in situ conservation, Orchidaceae, plant-pollinator decoupling, species distribution models, vanilla crop wild relatives ...

In keeping with its vexatious nature, the vanilla orchid’s anatomy had evolved so that it could be pollinated in most areas only by bees of the Euglossini tribe – commonly known as orchid bees ...

Orchid bees of the genus Euglossini are fast-flying highly aerobatic hymenopterans that inhabit the dense forests of Central America. Male orchid bees collect scent from spatially-rare orchid flowers, ...

Scientists knew that male orchid bees (Euglossini) gather a mix of fragrant chemicals from flowers and other natural sources and store their harvest in specialized hind-leg pockets. But the reason ...

Green orchid bees have a distinctive iridescent metallic luster throughout their bodies and are about the size of the better-known honey bee. When these bees are native to their environment, they ...

The region is, however, disturbed by human activities such as agriculture and urbanisation. This study provides a list of orchid bees ( Hymenoptera: Euglossini) compiled from field surveys conducted ...

In this study, through a rapid assessment, we evaluated differences in richness, abundance, species composition and beta diversity of Euglossini bees in preserved areas and areas altered by riverine ...

Para isso buscamos integrar os conhecimentos produzidos em artigos nesse volume. O capítulo I revela que que a fauna das abelhas da tribo Euglossini ainda é pouco conhecida em regiões de savana ...