Apimondia International Symposium on Indigenous Bees

1-4 February in the Philippines

This Symposium was masterminded by two dynamic women: Professor Cleo Cervancia and her team at University of the Philippines Los Banos, and Ame Locsin, President of BEENET Philippines. Two days of Symposium papers and discussion took place in Tagaytay City, followed by a well organised day of field work with stingless bees within Makiling Botanic Garden near to University of the Philippines.

Joel Magsaysay of Ilog Maria Bee Farm in Luzon

Professor Cleo Cervancia, President of Apimondia Commission for Asia

Ame Locsin, Chair of Organising Committee

Keepers of stingless bees

Khaerul Umur from HDI, Indonesia

The roof of the arena at Ilog Maria Bee Farm

A colony of Tetragonula biroi Friese. These stingless bees build laborate structures of cerumen around the hive entrance

Nur Adilah from Malaysia

Inside the stingless bee nest