World Bee Day celebrated globally on 20 May
With World Bee Day, Allsopp, the lead honeybee researcher at the Agriculture Research Council, the ARC, told beekeepers who work with Cape honeybees to remember that it was “a very special honeybee”, akin to Kim Kardashian in the “world celebrity stakes”. The Cape honeybee is one of the two indigenous honeybees occurring in South Africa and indigenous to the Fynbos biome. The other is the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata.
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