Deforestation, use of chemicals impacting on wild bees population in Ukhrul forest

The Tangkhul community has a traditional practice of rearing wild bees apiculture both for honey collection and for consuming the bee larvaes, but indiscriminate forest exploitation and use of chemical substances to increase crop yield or to protect crops from pest has directly affected the population of wild bees in the forest Source The Sangai Express Mungchan Zimik