ABSTRACT
In swamps (10.25), trees are usually smaller and their branches less strong, and nests often occur singly.
According to Toumanoff (1940) in Vietnam, A. dorsata wax was of particular importance, 'being extensively used by the native industries'. An occupied
10.2. The giant bee Apis dorsata
10.2. The giant bee Apis dorsata
The people of Tibet were Buddhist, and on principle did not do anything that would kill bees. Khando Chazotsang, niece of the Dalai Lama, explained (1980) that 'the majority of the people consider it as a sin to deprive the bees ... of their honey, since it took these bees a lot oflabour and time to do the gathering'. But honey from rock faces was collected by Nepali people of Tibetan stock (Aufschaiter, 1954), and in 1983 a Tibetan in Patan, Nepal, told me that children took honey from the nests if they could. A honey hunter is depicted on a rock face in Bhutan, also a Buddhist country. In 1882 India apparently exported honey to Bhutan (India, 1883).
