Diploid Male Production of Two Amazonian Melipona Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Figure 2

Colony conditions. (a) Colony in standard box, with large brood combs and surrounding pollen-pots; (b) colony inside tree-trunk with many brood combs, the age of developmental stage increases from upper to down, well evidenced by the darker color of combs in initial development; (c) workers of Melipona seminigra merrillae in honey-pots; (d) honey and pollen pots provision of the tree-trunk colony showed in (b) and many workers feeding on.