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Jose Trigueirinho Netto

Bees came to earth called by the Earth's nature.

The bees have come here to bring Earth a form of life that is not of this planet.

Paulo Antonio Machado

Bees are singular beings on this Earth.

25.000 species of bees are the estimate here on the surface, of which about 4.000-5.000 are in Brazil. And of these, about 300 species are social, those who live in a community as the queen, worker etc. that is very little. We are talking specifically about bees, those with stingers [angels]. Not the little bees that everyone sees, the Jatal and the Arapua types and the rest. These other small bees, they have a role too, they all came more or less together. 

But when the time arrived, Apis came down here - the technical name is Apis [honingbij]. The Apis type include only seven species. And they arrived, and we could study them. And they arrived, and we could study them. Among other with handbooks that came, writings, the sacred texts etc.,Aad with the handbook of nature. 

And the ancients knew this, they recorded this. The Egyptians knew, other civilizations knew. The Mayas here knew, they had contact with the bees, these indigenous varieties, which we call indigenous, which have no sting.

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When I first arrived here in Figueira, 1990-1991, there was a poster, and on that poster there was a spot written: Apiary [bijenstal]. Then we asked what it was, and such...

There was a prayer group in Belo Horizonte that had existed for many years, and this group was in charge, through Trigueirinho, to build an Apiary, at that time while Figueira was still a donated farm, and before the constructions, Trigueirinho had requested the hives, because he knew that a work, a spiritual work without the bees cannot be sustained. 

And from then on, it was the continuity. I have been improving, it is a lengthy work, it has been almost thirty years.

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Maria Rita Mendes

Well, I went to a Fine Arts College, and there I studied the geometry of the churches, the temples, and there was the first time I had seen that hexagon, and then I associated it with the comb of a hive [bijenraten]. And that was giving me an inner interest, but it was something that remained there, asleep.

And I met Trigueirinho, it was 1988. In 1989, I came for the first time to Figueira. Then I met the Apiary. I took a course at USP [University of São Paulo] in Biology, and increasingly it began taking me, I was taken by it all, and till today, more than thirty years, I am here. Each time I come here, I return home.

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