Beekeeping in Turkey - Honey bees
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Camlihemsin: Mustafa Memoglu in the branches of a beech tree inspects his trunk hives called Kara kovan. The particularity of the honey produced in these hives is that the bees build themselves the wax combs without any intervention by humans. It follows that the shape of these natural combs, built from the top down, is irregular, triangular or rounded. As to the quantity of honey, that is due to the multitude of native mountain plants (around 350 types) from which the bees draw the nectar at...
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