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HONEY HUNTING [2 records]

Record 1 2021-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
CONT

… bee hunting involves capturing and feeding wild bees, then releasing and following them back to their hive.

Key term(s)
  • honey bee hunting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
  • Sociology
CONT

Honey hunting, the plundering of wild nests of honeybees to obtain crops of honey and beeswax, is practised throughout the world, wherever wild nesting honeybee colonies are still abundant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
  • Sociologie
CONT

La chasse au miel, pillage de nids d'abeilles pour récolter le miel et la cire d'abeille, est encore couramment pratiquée dans les endroits où les populations […] pratiquent une économie de subsistance et où les colonies d'abeilles sauvages sont encore abondantes.

Spanish

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