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Brazil, State of Pará, near Bragança. Mr. Roque, 68 years old and a beekeeping farmer, keeps twenty hives of Melipona fasciculata bees with the help of Professor Giorgio Venturieri who monitors the upkeep of this model meliponary.
©Eric Tourneret
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