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The sound of thousands of bees almost sounds like human noise! Could this noise or sound be akin to human beings in the thousands at a Kumbh Mela perhaps, or at a large Woodstock type gathering? Bees (Apis spp.) enter and leave a bee box around Delhi, at a roadside apiary. When the box is opened, the mass of bees becomes evident. These are Apis mellifera, an Italian species of bee that is widely bred in India. Professional bee keepers approach harvest time in India, at the end of winter, when the bees have taken in a lot of nectar from sarsaon or mustard plants in the fields. The trays are opened in each box and the brood chambers checked, and the honey combs removed for extraction in the rotary extractor. Honey is then bottled and taken to market for sale... See the whole process of extra
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