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Scaptotrigona postica, La Isla Escondida, Colombia
A species of stingless bee in the Scaptotrigona genus. Stingless bees are seperate from honey bees yet do produce honey. They build tube-like structures as an entrance to their nest. The honey they produce is very expensive as the quantity produced is 1/75th that of a honey bee. A remarkable trait of this honey is that its sugar content does not spike blood sugar nor does it damage teeth.
Species ID tentative. You can identify species by their type of tube entrance but I'm still not 100% sure.
"Scaptotrigona postica" is a species of stingless bees that lives mainly in Brazil. They are eusocial bees in the tribe "Meliponini". "S. postica" is one of 25 species in the genus "Scaptotrigona" and are critical pollinators of the tropical rain forests of Brazil.
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