World's largest Indo-Malaya stingless bee repository submerged by flood in Terengganu

The recent floods severely impacted UMT's Indo-Malaya Stingless Be Repository. According to SIG head Prof Dr Shamsul, much of the research materials gathered there have been lost.

KUALA BERANG: The extraordinary floods that hit Hulu Terengganu did not only destroy houses, but also submerged the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu’s (UMT) Indo-Malaya Stingless Bee Repository at the Sekayu State Agricultural Park.

The repository has the world's largest collection and is storage centre for 24 Indo-Malayan stingless bee species collected by the UMT Bee and Stingless Bee Researcher Group (SIG) in the state over the past decades.