Trick photo! This is a newly emerged dorsata worker on a florea nest. The dorsata was dipped in honey before introduced so workers were licking her, making her looking like a queen! The next day the worker was still in the nest, seemly being accepted by their much smaller cousins.
From: HK PRADHAN, pradhan1942@sify.com
(Oct 31, 2003 21:36 EST)
I have been studying a very peculiar species of honeybee possibly trigon duckei friese. I am not a scientist researcher or a scholar in the technical terms. I was a civil servant who in my own time continued learning ethnic herbal medicines of the Gorkha's sine 1959 and am also interested in medicinal virtues of the honey of the particular honey bee.
Where can I get some direction in rearing a hive ot the same for my photography/videography and confirmation of beliefs or knowledge of the locals on the characteristic of the bee and its honey.
From: ysybee12@aol.com
(Jul 27, 2004 22:56 EDT)
Until the turn of the 20th century Americans used honey as a medicine. Today we have forgotten about the great medicinal benefits of honey. I remember as a little girl how my grandmother used honey on my skin wounds, sore throats, weak eyes, and burns.