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    • Stingless bees of Costa Rica 

      Aguilar Monge, Ingrid; Herrera González, Eduardo; Zamora Fallas, Luis Gabriel (Springer, 2012-11-19)
      The keeping of stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) or meliponiculture is carried out in a rustic and traditional way in Costa Rica. This is an activity present in several regions of the country, especially among the ...
    • Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect 

      Zamora Fallas, Luis Gabriel; Arias, María Laura; Aguilar Monge, Ingrid; Umaña Rojas, Eduardo (Springer, 2012-11-19)
      There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, ...
    • Microscopic Image Processing for the Analysis of Nosema Disease 

      Calderón, Rafael A.; Dghim, Soumaya; Travieso-González, Carlos M.; Gouider, Mohamed Salah; Ramírez-Bogantes, Melvin; Prendas Rojas, Juan Pablo; FIGUEROA-MATA, Geovanni (IGI Global., 2019)
      In this chapter, the authors tried to develop a tool to automatize and facilitate the detection of Nosema disease. This work develops new technologies in order to solve one of the bottlenecks found on the analysis bee ...
    • Servicios ecosistémicos de las abejas y su impacto en la conservación ambiental 

      Sánchez Chaves, Luis; Calderón Fallas, Rafael; van Veen, Johan (Editorial EUNA, 2023-10-27)
      Las abejas constituyen el grupo de polinizadores más importante de la flora nativa y de los cultivos agrícolas. Mediante los servicios ecosistémicos, son las responsables de la reproducción de una amplia diversidad de ...