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
