Brazilian robust-stingless bee
It lives in big families in hollow tree trunks in the rainforests of Brazil. It is a very important pollinator and makes honey that people love.
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Fun facts
One nest can hold from 2,000 to 50,000 bees, about 10,000 on average.
Workers change jobs as they get older: first they make wax, later they clean, guard the nest and finally fly out to collect food.
About 8 guard bees stand at the nest entrance, sometimes flying back and forth in front of it.
The bees keep their nest at about 32 degrees, a bit warmer than the rainforest around it.
A worker bee lives only about 30 to 40 days.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scaptotrigona postica
- Named by
- Latreille, 1807
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Mandaguari
Where the facts come from
- Scaptotrigona postica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Sintropepe. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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