A corps of master beekeepers is leading a drive to produce honey for the growing domestic market,offering subsistence farmers a current livelihood Liberian beekeeper Cecil Wilson is holding up a honeycomb, crawling with hundreds of so-called killer bees. They are the most aggressive in Africa, and but the honey is gracious,he says, as they start swarming around him.
African bees – or Apis mellifera scutellata, or to be precise – are not to be messed with. Not for nothing did they feature in 1978 catastrophe horror flick The Swarm. But for an increasing number of Liberians,still struggling to get by in a shattered postwar economy, they are providing a much-needed livelihood.
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Source: guardian.co.uk