Honey hunting from the largest bee in the world

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Despite this being a team effort – up to a dozen men are drafted in to support the hunter or ‘kuiche’ – there is silence, pressure and precision.Engulfed by the thick, acrid smoke, the hunter jousts tentatively at a nest with a bamboo stick with a sickle or wooden plate at one end, cutting the exposed honeycomb away from the cliff face.

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