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Stingless bees in Brazil with delicious honey
Thousands of bees emerge from a wooden box filled with waxy discs once Louise Lostosa opens the cover, and then these insects hover around the man, problematic with what looks like a cloud.
Lustosa devotes his free time to breeding a kind of local bee whose honey is increasingly used in the cookery sector as well as in the manufacture of medicines and cosmetics. He told AFP that this mission is “amazing!”
Lustosa only wears a long-sleeved shirt, jeans, and a hat equipped with a cover to protect his face from bees.
The reason he wears regular clothes is that little needle bees do not sting and can coexist with humans. This type of bee also plays a significant role in environmental protection, which has attracted Lostosa’s interest.
Traud Lostosa, head of the Abella Nativa Institute in Brasilia, began the idea of producing six bee species after realizing, along with other researchers, that the species was endangered.
“The bees alone were not endangered, but the whole nature,” he said.
While at the Institute where he organized workshops centered on the topic of bee breeding and also sells honey products, Lustosa said, “we explain to children that this type of bee does not sting and is essential for the environment and nature as well as helping humans.”
