BEES SUGGESTED
COULD DEFEND CYPRUS SUGGESTION BY APIARIST Impressed by the ferocity of Ins Cvprian bees niul by the se\eiitv of their stints, 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, lie was sure, he said, that the bees would so disconcert the enemy that Lhey would he easy meat for the defenders. The apiarist has now received a reply in which the Governor said liis correspondent seemed to be un<ftr a misapprehension, because the bees on Cyprus Avere remarkably docile. He was interested to iearn that the}' developed such belligerent tendencies Avheii they were taken to Australia and suggested that what Cyprus needed was a supply of Australian bees—wild ones for preference—provided that a guarantee could be given that they would distinguish between friend and foe!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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152BEES SUGGESTED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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