Bees_04_1 Placing the Dead and Nurturing the Living: Documentation of house- construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language

Here too Mr Ayyele Bola and Ato Tariku Chifaw watch the bees. They are surprised that the bees stayed in the tree and did not move to the little stick on which the queen bee is kept. Somebody said this could be because there are two queen bees. They say this is impossible. Another person said this could be cecause what is tied on the stick is not a queen bee. Ayyele then unties the stick and walks to the group of onlookers showing them that what they captured is the queen bee. The express agreement. They make various efforts: moving the stick to the ground and spraying water after which the bees move to where the queen bee is but then Ato Tariku again moves the stick with the queen bee. Mr Atnafu Yimer, one of the neighbours of Ato Tariku came and holds the stick in his hand and the bees gather on the stick. The recoding was done by Azeb Amha using Panasonic HC-W580 video camera