Bee Rescue in Trinidad and Tobago - Local efforts to conserve stingless bees
Stingless bee colonies are vulnerable to obliteration when their nesting sites are disturbed or destroyed. Gravid (egg-laden) queen bees are unable to fly and hence the colony is unable to swarm and resettle when disturbed. For this reason, local public awareness of stingless bees is being built gradually through the work of the BES-Net TT project.
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The project recently interviewed a local keeper of stingless bees in the southern part of the country, to learn about his efforts in stingless bee conservation. Mr. Robin Singh has been managing colonies of stingless bees since 2017. Learning from a personal friend, Robin has successfully taken up this hobby at his home and has become the go-to beekeeper for sawmillers in the southern district.
Robin has educated sawmillers on identification of entrances to bee colonies in trees, and effectively minimized the destruction of these colonies by saving the logs cut from these trees which house the colonies. Colonies are then safely transferred to hive boxes to be managed.
The interview was Mr. Singh filmed and the video was recently uploaded to the BES-Net TT You Tube channel for wide dissemination; learn more at this link: A haven for hives: Robin’s story
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More information:
Facebook BES-Net Trinidad & Tobago- Country: Trinidad and Tobago
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- Contact:
Lena Dempewolf
Shane Ballah
Celeste Chariandy
