Arimubee

✨🍯 A sweet story that transcends millennia 🍯✨

Did you know that archaeologists discovered jars of honey in Ancient Egyptian tombs over 3,000 years old – and the honey was still preserved? 🤯

That’s because honey has a unique composition:
🐝 Low moisture → microorganisms can’t survive.
🐝 Acidic pH → prevents bacteria and fungi.
🐝 Bee enzymes → produce natural substances that preserve it.

For the Egyptians, honey was considered sacred: it was used as food, in religious rituals, as medicine, and even as offerings for pharaohs in the afterlife. ✨⚱️

Honey is not only sweet, it’s a true time capsule of nature. 🌍💛

👉 Did you ever imagine that honey could survive intact for millennia?

Happy World bee day!!! Random photos of bees taken around the world! Bee happy everyone and remember the importance bees have in our ecosystem! They go out of their hives to pollinate our crops EVERY single day !!!

Last Saturday Sept 28, 2024 we went on a project survey with my friend and super champion for the and discovered the Plebeia stingless bees collecting resin on a recently trimmed pine tree. Stingless bees use the resin to make propolis and cerume (mix of wax and propolis) to protect against diseases and build their structures. This was the first time the resin collection was recorded on this species in the US, since these bees have been here since 1948 and just recently have been rediscovered! You can read all about it in Robin’s article on Bay Nature that is in my bio.

Today our project on the stingless bees of Palo Alto was featured in the local newspaper ! Thank you for summarizing so well the whole story. I need to thank all the volunteers and institutions in the community that have helped on this project including just to name a few. Protecting these bees that come from Brazil, home of , is a mission very close to our hearts and we love spreading the knowledge about them! See the full link of the article in my bio !

On Aug 24 th, I will have the privilege to teach about Meliponini Stingless bees for the program. In addition to learn about these amazing insects, I will also do a tasting session with the participants who will receive a honey sample at home! See the link for registration in my bio.

It was just another great day in working on the and recruiting more volunteers and collaborators. On this trip we met Mateo from who has kindly volunteered to create a webpage for the project. We also went to see nest #5 that is thriving in a private property and where Sarah and Dawn are making observations on their entrance activity. Then we went to meet with Corey at the who is building a Meliponary there along with a pollinator garden. The day ended with a visit with Annie from who has recruited volunteers to build another meliponary near the at Rinconada Park and fancy beehives are being built !

This Saturday April 6th we will participate at Nature Day ! We will introduce our work on stingless bees also known as Meliponas, which evolved in the tropics and are used since pre-Columbian times for their very special honey that has amazing medicinal properties. We will also talk about the diversity of stingless bees, their hive and how the colony is organized. We will have some Arimubee Melipona honey for sale collected directly from our hives in Brazil! Come and celebrate the wonders of bees at !