Not the most sustainable practice, but how it's always been done in India, nonetheless...
A family business that specializes in the art of collecting honey from wild hives without the use of gloves, or any other significant protection! Taking down the hive, extracting the honey from it MANUALLY with bare hands and finally selling it to the customers - all of this is shown in the traditional method to get rid of an inconsequential or pesky beehive (depending on how you look at it!), the only way of earning a living for these people.
Active beehive being incinerated to the ground. A honey-collector straddles a large bee-hive on a tree, smokes the bees out of it, with a bucket in one hand and a sickle in the other. He cuts the hive, in sections, to the ground, to be collected by his assistant. The bees scatter in the heat of the moment...
Collecting honey - the traditional way
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