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>They preserve the same as other honeys, practically indefinitely?
Lower sugar and higher water content means it's less viscous and more prone to fermentation. It must be stored in the fridge and won't last indefinitely.
>They are all over South Am?
And the tropics. The Australian Bernd might know, they're also kept comercially there. They're so omnipresent they're barely even noticed, lots of them are tiny. It doesn't mean they're all useful for honey, many forage on excrement and some even on rotten flesh. And even then, the number of species kept for their honey is wide.
>Well that old woman should be interviewed, and record her knowledge.
Folk knowledge on this should be preserved, but it isn't going away. Meliponiculture is as much of a science as apiculture, and biologists are certainly researching hive identification.
>How much they travel?
The bigger the bee, the further away it goes. The ones I see are smaller than Apis.
>Sounds good. Honey indeed differ depending what type of flowers collected from.
In this case it's more about different enzymes than flowers, the fragrance is completely different from Apis honey produced in the same region.