The jicote barcino, or melipona costaricensis is one of the three types of melipona bees that exist here in Costa Rica. The other two found here in Costa Rica are called jicote gato and jicote congo, but more on them another time! All of these Melipona bees are stingless. [Read more…]

Bees have just been officially called the most important creature on the planet. I mean, 70% of all the food you [we] eat had flowers that were pollinated by bees. So it makes sense. If they go extinct (which they are now on the endangered list as a whole), then we’ll all be eating different types of potatoes until the cows come home. And then forever after that. [Read more…]