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ASIAN APICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 1994 AAA
READERS IN
CONFERENCE IN INDONESIA
AFRICA, AMERICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA
The Second AAA Conference will take place from the 26 to 29 July 1994, at the University of Gadjah Hada Campus, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Yogyakarta is located in Central Java about 600 km from Jakarta.
Conference topics will include: the biology of Apis cerana; honeybee pathology; Apis mellifera beekeeping; beekeeping and ‘evelopment; pollination evaulation; and _.oney plants in Asia. The First Announcement for this important meeting will be available at the Apimondia Congress in September and further details will be given in this journal as they become
Beekeeping & Development
AAA assists communication and the exchange of information between bee scientists and beekeepers in Asia. The administrative headquarters of AAA are in Japan, and communication between countries is achieved by AAA Chapters throughout Asia.
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there a bee scientist interested to work with
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AAA Members will meet this month during the 33rd International Apicultural Congress in Beijing. Please come and see us and discuss AAA activities.
am sending pictures of the Trigona stingless 2es found in a village in East Java, Indonesia.
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Erliana Maria shows
a colony of Trigona nesting in the cavity Honey storage pots are present at each end of the nest, the paler area to the left of centre ts brood comb
ofa bamboo cane
Many aspects of this species should be studied very carefully, and the chemical composition of each part of the nest should be carefully
analysed. wonder whether you can help me to do research in this field? |
This picture shows you the whole nest of this species. !n this nest there is sour comb, larvae comb, honeycomb mixed with pollen and propolis (usually black but sometimes white). The taste of the pollen in this species is always sour and sometimes very sour! The taste of the honey varies, sometimes it is sweet, sometimes it is sour: it depends on the pollen content dissolved in the honey.
Erliana Maria NING
