| In some areas, these stingless bees are kept in gourds, clay pots, or hollowed logs. |
| So that touching and feeling is a shared characteristic between honey bees and stingless bees. |
| We are testing several species of tiny, stingless wasps, the sharpshooters' natural enemies, to see whether they can quash expanding sharpshooter populations. |
| They tried unsuccessfully to match the sequences they did isolate to genes from modern stingless bees. |
| The brood comb of stingless bees is one cell thick and usually horizontal. |
| The team used stingless bees encased in copal to try and detect DNA sequences from the insect. |
