3B Printing! I know its an advert, but so interesting to see as a collaboration between nature and beekeepers. Of course probably worth bearing mind too that the bees might not want to be making bottle sculptures...
Mexico is known for its "megadiversity"and bees are a big part of that. I saw these tiny handcrafted bees exhibited in Museo del Mundo Maya, Merida, Mexico (January 2014). They are telling the story of bee culture in Mexico...
Melipona and Trigona are two stingless bee species that exist in the Yucatan area in Mexico.
The information in the museum read as follows:
'Swarms captured in the hills were kept in hollowed out tree trunks, closed at either end with clay disks, and stacked in wood structures. A small hole was made near the middle of the trunk for the bees to go in and out. After wild plants blossomed, the hives were cut back and opened to extract the contents which were first given to the Maya rulers and later to the Spaniards'
These people are making things out of the bees wax.
Collecting the honey.
We later came across a Mexican bees nest under this arch way on the ancient Maya road from
Kabah to Uxmal.
It seems to be defying gravity.
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