Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) here will be researching on a project to create bees without stings.

The National Resource Development Board of the Department of Biotechnology has sanctioned the project "Morphometry and phylo-geography of honey bees and stingless bees", a press release here said. Two universities will be involved in the project.

The TNAU will work on bio-ecology of stingless bees and evolve improved bee management techniques. The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwar, Karnataka, will coordinate the research on honeybees. The studies for the three-year project will be done in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam and Jammu Kashmir.

The projects will document the biodiversity of the bees in 30 different agro-climatic zones in these states. The genetic makeup of native honeybee species will also be studied in detail for the first time.

Source : IANS