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Honey bee “fighting” or bitter honey pure common in West Bangka Regency, Province of Bangka Belitung (Babel), was interested in the tourists, because it has properties that can cure various diseases in the human body.

Marhabun, a bee pemadu fighting in the village of Simpang Tiga, Teritib District, West Bangka, Babylon, Sunday, said, tourists from other provinces such as Jakarta and Palembang often came to his village only to find that honey bees fighting efficacious cure various diseases.

In addition to tourists from outside the province, he said, residents of other districts in Babylon there was also fighting for the honey bee to the village of Simpang Tiga.

“Tourists often come out of the province to the village of Simpang three, only to find that honey bees Pelawan bitter taste, unlike other honey bees,” he said and mentioned the honey bee fighting was sold for Rp120 thousand per kg, while the sweet honey bee Rp40 thousand per kg .

According to him, honey bees have proven fighter that can cure various diseases such as kidney, high blood pressure, low blood, disorder of the stomach, weak syawat, diabetes and neutralize the poison food lodged in the body.

“I often visited by people who never buy honey bees and claimed his opponents felt well since taking the honey bee fighting, so people are always ordering me honey bees,” he said.

He explains, honey produced from bees nest in the village consists of two kinds of honey that tastes bitter fighting and honey sweet. Honey-fighting, he said it is bitter because the bee sucks fighting tree that bitter taste that honey bees were bitter.

“The sweet honey bee is a kind of suck at harvest crops or fruit, so the honey bee’s sweet,” he said.

According to him, honey bees were fighting very hard to come by and to the Babylonians, only in West Bangka always popular with the region producing both honey bees honey bees fighting (bitter taste) and a sweet honey bee.

“Honey bees fighting comes from the beehive nesting at a number of large trees around the village and harvest time only once a year in May each year,” he said.

However, he said, people also often experience crop failure occurs when the rainy season on the schedule for harvest hive does not contain honey when the rainy season.

“If it happened in May of summer, the hive of honey bees which contains a lot of fighting, reaching 30 for one kilo gram of beehive-busy and bustling community hive fighting for it in the woods around the village,” he says and mentions many of the honeycomb found in a large timber trees.

Although difficult to find a honey bee’s fighting, but he said, honey supplies remain there all there are many requests coming from outside the province because of fighting that honey bees have the resilience or durability of the tens of years of storage provided with tightly closed.

“People fighting to save the honey bees for years for personal consumption and for sale if anyone meminatinya, though not in significant amounts due to limited supply because of the difficulty of getting the honey bee’s fighting,” he said.