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New perspectives for stingless beekeeping in the yucatan: results of an integral program to rescue and promote the activity

In a paper published four years ago we suggested that stingless beekeeping in the Mayan communities of the state of Yucatan could be at the edge of disappearing unless rapid recovering measures were taken. We proposed several points of action including: intensive extension courses in Mayan communities, the adoption of new technologies for rearing and reproducing these bees as well as controlling their pests, the creation of a central bank of colonies to give on loan to farmers and the investigation of alternative areas of use of these bees and their products. In this paper, we present results of these measures that have resulted in a technological package to rear and reproduce these bees. We also present results on alternatives to control their pests and enemies and finally new evidence of the alternative use of these bees for pollination in enclosures. Similar programs could ensure that stingless beekeeping still may find a promising future in the Yucatan peninsula and elsewhere.