Mate, sorry to hear about your trouxe with stings.
Down here in Brazil 4 of my colonies are extremely aggressive and whatever I am doing in the apiary they have to be left to the end of the working day. Few months ago I received 15 stings on my hand and forearm and for the first time I...
Mate, sorry for your losses!
When that happens is tough to take in.
Down here in Brazil is common to lose them to crop spraying if your hives are close to some plantations (soya and corn). From the pic it looked there are loads of deadline bees at the botton which here are clear signs of poisoning.
Jenkins, the moisture content of some Melipona Quadrifasciatta (known as Mandatária or MQA) are within those parameters above. I agree with you that type of honey is totally different from AM's honey. We're ver lucky down here because we have countless species producing unique honey, propolis...
Hello!
We have a small countryside property (2 ha. ) where we keep our hives of AM (africanized). We have also native, stingless bees of 6 different species (we have 220 others) endemic to Brazil which produce a top quality honey and pólen.