Hi All
 
Enjoyed reading the lists of threats to bees around the world. (so
far nothing from Malaysia - Choon??)
 
Here is my list for the eastern cape province, South Africa (middle
of the tip of africa)
 
1) Traditional honey gatherers - view a beehive as an unownable thing
- hence very difficult to presuade not to remove the hive/ smash it
up with a rock and burn it to get the honey.
 
2) Cheap 'bee experts' - who provide bad advice and use poisons to
kill beehives. Multiplies bee pathogens and damages urban resevoirs
of honeybees that repopulate the countryside after droughts.
 
3) Lawnmowers and racist bees. Bees don't like lawnmowers, and they
don't like dark people - if they did not have these little quirks,
90% of bad bee problems would not happen.
 
4) Government - in Africa the G word is always a problem somehow or
other.
 
5) Hollywood - somehow or other this places' movie industry has
managed to transplant Apiphobia to South Africa. Pity.
 
 
Others: Honey badgers?? Fork tailed drongas etc.
 
Just must say - Ron - I aggree fully with you about the bee removals.
 
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
15 Park Road
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
6139
South Africa
 
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