| Criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão GC Venturieri Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, 2004 | 128 | 2004 |
| The role of useful microorganisms to stingless bees and stingless beekeeping C Menezes, A Vollet-Neto, FAFL Contrera, GC Venturieri, ... Pot-Honey: A legacy of stingless bees, 153-171, 2013 | 127 | 2013 |
| Olfactory eavesdropping by a competitively foraging stingless bee, Trigona spinipes JC Nieh, LS Barreto, FAL Contrera, VL Imperatriz–Fonseca Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 110 | 2004 |
| Long distance foraging and recruitment by a stingless bee, Melipona mandacaia B Kuhn-Neto, FAL Contrera, MS Castro, JC Nieh Apidologie 40 (4), 472-480, 2009 | 96 | 2009 |
| Pesticide exposure assessment paradigm for stingless bees KO Cham, RCF Nocelli, LO Borges, FEC Viana-Silva, CAM Tonelli, ... Environmental entomology 48 (1), 36-48, 2019 | 95 | 2019 |
| Meliponicultura no Brasil: situação atual e perspectivas futuras para o uso na polinização agrícola GC Venturieri, DA Alves, JK Villas-Bôas, CAL Carvalho, C Menezes, ... Polinizadores no Brasil: contribuição e perspectivas para a biodiversidade …, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| New horizons on stingless beekeeping (Apidae, Meliponini). FAL Contrera, C Menezes, GC Venturieri Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, v. 40, p. 48-51, 2011. Suplemento especial., 2011 | 76 | 2011 |
| Pulsed mass recruitment by a stingless bee, Trigona hyalinata JC Nieh, FAL Contrera, P Nogueira–Neto Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2003 | 63 | 2003 |
| Clustered male production by workers in the stingless bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (Apidae, Meliponinae) D Koedam, FAL Contrera, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Insectes sociaux 46, 387-391, 1999 | 63 | 1999 |
| Effect of group size on the aggression strategy of an extirpating stingless bee, Trigona spinipes JC Nieh, K Kruizinga, LS Barreto, FAL Contrera, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Insectes Sociaux 52, 147-154, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Effect of food location and quality on recruitment sounds and success in two stingless bees, Melipona mandacaia and Melipona bicolor JC Nieh, FAL Contrera, J Rangel, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55, 87-94, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| Polarized short odor-trail recruitment communication by a stingless bee, Trigona spinipes JC Nieh, FAL Contrera, RR Yoon, LS Barreto, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56, 435-448, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
| Landscape genomics to the rescue of a tropical bee threatened by habitat loss and climate change R Jaffé, JC Veiga, NS Pope, ÉCM Lanes, CS Carvalho, R Alves, ... Evolutionary applications 12 (6), 1164-1177, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| The bigger, the smaller: relationship between body size and food stores in the stingless bee Melipona flavolineata JC Veiga, C Menezes, GC Venturieri, FAL Contrera Apidologie 44, 324-333, 2013 | 42 | 2013 |
| How queen and workers share in male production in the stingless bee Melipona subnitida Ducke (Apidae, Meliponini) D Koedam, FAL Contrera, AO Fidalgo, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Insectes sociaux 52, 114-121, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
| Forest reserves and riparian corridors help maintain orchid bee (Hymenoptera: Euglossini) communities in oil palm plantations in Brazil TF Brito, CC Phifer, JL Knowlton, CM Fiser, NM Becker, F C Barros, ... Apidologie 48, 575-587, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Variation in the ability to communicate three-dimensional resource location by stingless bees from different habitats JC Nieh, FAL Contrera, S Ramı́rez, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca Animal behaviour 66 (6), 1129-1139, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Temporal and climatological influences on flight activity in the stingless bee Trigona hyalinata (Apidae, Meliponini) FAL Contrera, VL Imperatriz-Fonseca, JC Nieh Revista Tecnologia e Ambiente 10 (2), 35-43, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| Radiofrequency identification (RFID) reveals long-distance flight and homing abilities of the stingless bee Melipona fasciculata P Nunes-Silva, L Costa, AJ Campbell, H Arruda, FAL Contrera, ... Apidologie 51, 240-253, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Foraging distance of melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae) AG Silva, RS Pinto, FAL Contrera, PMC Albuquerque, MMC Rêgo Sociobiology 61 (4), 494-501, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |