Jamshedpur : Bees are buzzing at the sprawling three-storeyed building of East Singhbhum district collectorate. Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments and cities.
The new district collectorate which was built in 2005 and houses offices of deputy commissioner, additional deputy commissioners, deputy development commissioner, district welfare officer, district rural development authority (DRDA), deputy collectorate Nazareth, district social welfare, additional district magistrate and district information officer.
The honey bees keep flying throughout the day often without harming anyone but their number increases after wind and it is at this moment that people are under fear of bite.
East Singhbhum deputy development commissioner Lal Mohan Mahto said that they he too was bitten by a bee like insect. Though the incidents caused considerable panic, there were no reports of anyone needing medical attention due to bee stings.
The insects use their tiny mandibles to bite animals that are too small to sting, like the wax moth and the parasitic varroa mite. Like the snake bite, the bite contains a natural anaesthetic to paralyse the victim so the pest can be dragged out of the hive.
�Somewhat like a snake, the honeybee uses its mandibles to bite its enemy and then secretes 2-heptanone into the wound to anaesthetise it. This enables the honeybee to eject the enemy from the hive and is a particularly effective defence against pests, such as wax moth larvae and varroa mites, which are too small to sting,� sand an expert.
