For most of us, a pot of golden honey is only a supermarket away. But for the Rai people of Nepal, gathering the sweet stuff involves a death-defying climb on home-made ladders - and a four-hour ...
BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The world's largest honey bee has been discovered for the first time in Thailand at Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park in Chiang Mai’s Fang district, the Department of ...
Hanging from a rope-and-bamboo ladder off a Himalayan mountain cliff, skilled Nepali climbers gather highly prized hallucinogenic honey -- an ancient tradition stung by environmental degradation and ...
Sports fans know what the Mexican wave is — also known as just “the wave.” When stadiums are packed with cheering fans, they raise their arms in succession, creating a flowing wave through the ...
BENI: As the beehives of the Apis laboriosa bee known as Himalayan honeybees decreased gradually, production of honey too has come down in the recent days. The honey of the Himalayan honeybees is ...
Roubik, David Ward, Sakagami, Shoichi F., and Kudo, Iwao. 1985. "A note on distribution and nesting of the Himalayan honey bee Apis laboriosa Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae)." Journal of the Kansas ...
HM Yeshwanth (Museum Facility In-charge) examines the bumble bee collection. The facility is climate controlled and one of its kind in India. | Pic Credit: NCBS-TIFR Bumblebee (Bombus festivus) ...
The National Centre for Biological Sciences, while pointing to the lack of knowledge about where and how bee species live and how an inability to identify different species is an impediment to ...