Dalibor

We took a tram, a train, a ferry, and walked to this little institute about an hour out of Prague. The "king of the bees" as Bob would say, Dalibor, has been studing bees for years. When he began to talk about them he was so into every little detail. First he went right into the hives and picked up each honey comb to find the queen. He talked about how they bees behave, the job of each bee, the relationships between the hives and the environment, and how they make honey. It was so fascinating to see how these guys interact. We took honey straight from the comb and dipped bread into it 3 minutes off the comb.

Then he served us with traditional czech soup, and homemade pizza that he cooked in his outside oven. So dank. We made bees wax trinkets, walked around his little garden, and then he decided he would just inseminate a couple of the drones so we could see exactly how it was done! This guy doesn't even use a computer.. all of his bees and studies are recorded in books on site. The "lab" was a table with a couple of instruments and all of his books. In three seconds he had captured the drone's sperm and tossed it into a dixie cup.