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NEWS AROUND THE WORL the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, offer great potential for agricultural and economic
Unfortunately, this dearth of information about indigenous bees will continue unless more
funding for basic natural history research is forthcoming", asserts Roubik.
growth in the region. Over 2.200 tonnes of honey are produced annually in Mazandaran
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Province. Some 2,/00 beekeepers have 192,000 colonies across the northern lranian Province of Mazandaran - an average of 12.5 kg from each colony, reported the Provincial
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also complained about the insufficient lowinterest loans granted to the honey producers and the shortage of wood for producing the
produced in nests of different species, nor how often bee species create new nests.
hive boxes required by the industry. ce: www.mehrnews.ir
Pygmies have harvested a nest of stingless bees
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Bee farmer protests over islands A South Korean bee farmer has covered his
and found that Pygmy names for the bees
body with bees in protest over a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea. Ahn Sang-gyu, was stung 200 times. He was protesting against Japan's claim to number of rocky islets located in waters between Japan and South Korea. a
Called Dokdo in Korean and 7akeshima in Japanese, the area has caused a long-running rift between the nations.
"The honeybee dares to abandon her life when enemies are attempting to attack, to protect her own home. From now on, hope these bees
corresponded to scientific names, except for black and brown forms of Meliponula ferruginea. Honeybee (Apis) nests were numerous compared to other sites in the tropics, whereas stingless bee nests were relatively scarce. Nest abundance did not vary
Three tools used by Chimpanzees to harvest honey from stingless bee nests in Lope
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with altitude, nor did pollen collection or the seasonality of flowering.
Robert Kajobe of the Dutch Tropical Bee Research Unit invited Roubik to visit the
Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda.
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will contribute to protect our Dokdo", Ahn Sang-Gyu said. He rovered himself in 187,000 bees to ssent the dimensions of the islands, which
measure 187,000 m2.
The rift threatened to flare up again last month after Japan said it would conduct a maritime survey in waters surrounding the islets. After negotiations in the South Korean capital Seoul, Japan agreed to cancel the survey after South Korea agreed to drop plans to officially register Korean names for trenches and ridges on the
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UGANDA Chimps, gorillas and humans harvest honey in the first study of indigenous African honeybees and stingless bees in the same habitat, humans and chimpanzees are the primary bee nest predators. Batwa Pygmies, who have traditionally harvested honey for food, located 228 bee
nests (both honeybees and stingless bees) for the study. David Roubik, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, identified the bees
Here African honeybees in their native habitat co-exist with five or more species of stingless
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bees. Chimps in the Park peel and chew the tips of vines and twigs to make honey dipsticks.
Roubik notes that indigenous groups in the Americas use similar honey brushes to harvest honey in areas where Africanised bees are relative newcomers.
"Most studies of stingless bees have been undertaken in South America and south-east
Asia and have ignored the ecology and context of Afro-tropical stingless bee species, particularly in equatorial regions. hope this is just the beginning of a long-lasting collaboration that will make a significant contribution to Afro-tropical bee research", writes Kajobe. "Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest is the only place on earth where gorillas, chimps |
and humans partition forest resources. Given the importance of honey as one of the most
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concentrated sources of sugar in the forest, and the fact that the Park Management Plan allows collection of non-timber forest products. there is an abysmal lack of ecological information
about the role of honey-making bees and the role of their natural predators in this ecosystem. Nothing is known about the amount of honey
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