In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state ...

found in tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil. Unlike the fuzzy brown or yellow bees familiar ... Unfortunately, deforestation in Central and South America has severely impacted many orchid bee ...

Orchid bees were collected in an area of shrubby Caatinga at the locality of Três Irmãos, municipality of São José do Piauí, Piauí State, northeastern Brazil, using traps baited with aromatic ...

A few kinds, the “vulture bees” from Panama and Brazil ... They are anti-pollinators. Orchids and a few other flowering plants offer no food to bee pollinators. Instead, they dupe male ...

regions in central Brazil, as well as the Pantanal are virtually unknown and several areas within the Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes remain to be sampled. The orchid bee fauna of Minas Gerais state ...

The Bee Orchid is a master of mimicry—its flowers mimic the appearance ... This captivating species, belonging to the Cattleya alliance, is native to Brazil and is celebrated for its striking lavender ...

Researchers have discovered a troubling decline in the Amazon rainforest's orchid bee population due to deforestation, reported news outlet Mongabay. Data gathered in the late 1990s regarding habitat, ...

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Research into orchid bees and stingless bees, Brazil’s other group of native bee species, continues to paint a broader and more detailed picture of the Amazon’s native pollinators.

Brown said protecting orchid bee habitat and rainforests in general could largely be a matter of internal Brazilian politics and economics, but there were ways to boost their conservation. "We are ...

Brown said protecting orchid bee habitat and rainforests in general could largely be a matter of internal Brazilian politics and economics, but there were ways to boost their conservation.

Brown said protecting orchid bee habitat and rainforests in general could largely be a matter of internal Brazilian politics and economics, but there were ways to boost their conservation. “We are ...