BEES SUGGESTED
COULD DEFEND CYPRUS
SUGGESTION BY APIARIST Impressed, by the ferocity of his Cyprian bees and. by the severity of their stings, a Victorian apiarist wrote to the Governor of Cyprus just after the fall of Crete and suggested that hives should be distributed over the island and the bees released as the invaders advanced. He was sure, he said, that the bees would so disconcert the enemy that they would be easy meat for the defenders.
The apiarist has now received a reply in which the Governor said his correspondent seemed to be under a misapprehension, because the bees on Cyprus were remarkably docile. He was interested to learn that they developed such belligerent tendencies when they were taken to Australia and suggested that what Cyprus needed was a supply of Australian bees —wild ones for preferenc-o—provided that a guarantee could be given that, they would distinguish between friend and foe!
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 3 August 1942, Page 7
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153BEES SUGGESTED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 3 August 1942, Page 7
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