A Different Kind of Beekeeping Takes Flight

Posted on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 06:43 PM by Bryan Nisperos

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More and more people are raising stingless, or meloponine, bees, which produce a broad variety of honey, some of it with medicinal uses.

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