Contents

## **Preface XI**


Maria Claudia Colla Ruvolo-Takasusuki, Arielen Patricia Balista Casagrande Pozza, Ana Paula Nunes Zago Oliveira, Rejane Stubs Parpinelli, Fabiana Martins Costa-Maia, Patricia Faquinello and Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de Toledo


## Chapter 7 **Beekeeping in Jalisco, México 177** Contreras-Escareño F, Echazarreta CM, Pérez-Armendáriz B, Cavazos Arroyo J, Macías-Macías JO and Tapia-González JM

Chapter 8 **From Extraction to Meliponiculture: A Case Study of the Management of Stingless Bees in the West-Central Region of Mexico 201**

Alejandro Reyes-González, Andrés Camou-Guerrero and Salvador Gómez-Arreola

## Chapter 9 **Rearing Bumble Bees for Research and Profit: Practical and Ethical Considerations 225** Robin E. Owen
