Honeybees in Bangkok
While searching for birds in the garden of the Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok last week, I happened to spot this open-air beehive suspended from a branch about 3o ft. high in a tree. One of the gardeners noticed that I had found it, and told me it had been there for a year-and-a-half. He also said the honey is good to eat, and it appeared to me that there are proably several gallons contained in this honeycomb. I wonder how closely these bees are related to our American honeybees. (?)
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Did the gardener mention how the honey is removed without destroying the honeycomb? I didn't know that people collected honey from hives that they didn't create for the bees.
The gardener did not comment on the technique of collection, but from my own experience watching my father work with honeybees for many years, I believe it's impossible to extract the honey without destroying the honeycomb, even from a specially constructed hive.
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