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Going forward, Wood's team will seek to further improve the mechanical damping upon landing, drawing lessons from stingless bees and mosquitoes, as well as scaling up to larger vehicles.—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025 The mixology team is hard at work infusing, distilling, and dehydrating seasonal ingredients, including rare honey produced by stingless bees endemic to Costa Rica.—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025 Unlike honey bees, which store their honey in a wax honeycomb, stingless bees store theirs in pots of wax mixed with tree resins.—New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024 With over 600 species, stingless honey bees are the largest group of honey-producing bees; they’re found throughout tropical and subtropical parts of the world.—New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024 Her sentences are as precise as always, but stingless, the edges of irony sanded down.—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024 Their cultivation of sacred stingless bees—still emulated in the Yucatán Peninsula today—provided both pollination for their crops and honey to use in food, rituals and medicine.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024 Still other mitigation efforts include introducing non-native predators of the emerald ash borer, such as stingless wasps.—Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 13 May 2024 As stingless beekeeping spreads, entire families are taking a more active role.—Rosa Chávez Yacila, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
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