Bernard Diaper gave an interesting talk titled "Bee Travels Around The World".
He gave an interesting talk with pictures of bee keeping trips he has made around the world. He has visited various countries and seen honey bees around the world.
He had some beautiful pictures of the "Apis Dorsata" large Asian honey bee. He has been to Nepal to see the Honey Collectors in practice. This is something I have also wanted to do.
He also showed us pictures of various other trips including trips the Oman and Saudi Arabia where we were surprised on amount of honey collected.
Samples of the bees he had collected and including of some very small bees Apis Florea were passed around for us to see exactly how small some of the bees were.
On one trip to Brasil to had found stingless bees that collected honey and would full the hair of potential aggressors. They had even been reported that the bees could pull eye lashes and if that didn't deter people they could get behind in person's eye and attack the veins located in the eye socket. Very scary.
Bernard gave and interesting and will lookout for his talks in the future. He was the Apiary Manager of my local association and is also a very respected bee keeper and honey show judge.
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