This booklet is intended to be a quick guide to enable people to approach bees without fear, aimed at beekeepers as well as nature lovers and all those workers, such as teachers and health professionals, who want to know about appropriate risks and precautions. Bees can sting, and their venom is painful, but they do so much more rarely than we think, and only in extreme defense.Safety then, should be understood for humans but also for bees.We find here collected and discussed the thousands of big and small tricks to prevent damage, accidents and losses during the beekeeper's work, in honey processing and in the management of the entire apiary.

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