Talebearing24- No Experience Is Lost!

          Honeybee is believed to be a dangerous flying insect while the honey extracted from the honeycomb where the honeybee lives is very sweet and performs a lot of medicinal purposes. Honey is consumed raw or diluted and in refined form. Honeycomb is found in the hollow cavity of a tree where they believe that it is hidden from human beings and their activities. I personally had never seen the honeycomb before until the day we found one in the hole of a cut tree by the operator. It started like a play on this day, he was felling trees as usual and it was getting dark before we noticed that the last tree he fell had honeycomb full of honey as well as the bees at the top of the tree.

          Immediately this tree fell, the bees started flying around to sting any animal that came their way in order to prevent their home. Initially, we had been told to remove our top to prevent the entry of the bees into our clothes. The operator told us to look for a big and clean bucket, this was around 18:45hours. He gathered some dry logs of wood and set it on fire very close to the place where the honeycomb was hidden in the tree in order to drive away the flying bees so that we could extract the honeycomb.

          Because of the heat, the operator could not use the bare hand to draw the honeycomb into the metal bucket but the cutlass instead while we were at a distance watching the process and later I personally moved

closer to the tree when I noticed that the heat intensity was reduced and the fire had many of them but one of them stung me at the tip of my finger. I didn’t really feel it. What an interesting process! Meanwhile, we had been warned not to leak the honey at the spot because the bees would en mass sting the disobedient one to death.

          After extracting the honeycomb into the bucket, we vigorously pressed it to extract the honey from the comb into a clean container until we were completely done. In one word, we separated the honey from the comb and shared the extracts in bottles. We all enjoyed it, what I enjoyed most was the extraction process. Since then, we thought of seeing another tree with honeycomb for us to extract but no one again. The experience cannot be forgotten.