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By: Julie Masis - April 17, 2021
When Nataniel Moshe Sagi first came to Mexico and learned about bees that don’t sting, he says he fell in love. He had no idea that such bees existed and was alarmed to learn that after being on this planet for millions of years, they were now in danger of dying out. So he uprooted permanently to Mexico and now runs a bee conservation sanctuary on Cozumel Island, where he keeps several species of stingless bees and gives tours to visitors.
“They are my friends,” the 24-year-old Sagi assures visitors to his bee sanctuary on a recent afternoon as he lifts the lid off a wooden box where his bees live. “They know the flower where they collected the pollen yesterday, so of course they know me. There are experiments showing that bees have great memory and they can recognize faces.”
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