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The bee man
The bee-keeper's is a very peculiar work, because bees (notwithstanding
the name, apis domestica) are by no means domestic animals.
The bee-keeper must mould his every gesture to their behaviour,
if he wants to raise them. In order to produce honey the bee-keeper
must push the bees to accumulate more supplies than they need. Then
he collects only the excess honey, offering in exchange the help
the bees need to get through the winter safely.
When he wants to produce a particular kind of honey, the bee-keeper
becomes nomadic. At night he loads the bees on trucks and transports
them to places hundreds of kilometres away, in quest of great expanses
of meadows or trees in bloom. The destination might be an orange
or a chestnut grove or a sunflower field. If the climatic conditions
are favourable - bees can't stand the
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