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Re: Stingless Bees
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>Some of the Trigona were really fierce when disturbed, colonies threw out a 
>lot of workers that started biting and pulling facial hair. 6 mm big bees 
>in your ears and IN your nostrils were a good reason to run away.

This is typical of the Trigona in S India; as soon as you open the 'hive' 
virtually every worker exits and starts to attack you.  Makes it easy to 
find the queen though!

Best wishes

Peter
52.144442, -1.503509 

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