One of the world's largest honeycombs, harvested by the Kattunayakan tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India

 One of the world's largest honeycombs, harvested by the Kattunayakan tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India

No living creature, not even human, has achieved, in the centre of one's sphere, what the bee has achieved on her own: and if intelligence from another world were to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation, I would offer the humble comb of honey.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

The Life Of The Bee, 1924.

Photo: One of the world's largest honeycombs, harvested by the Kattunayakan tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India