Robin Guy's article in the first issue ofBee Worldthis year,“A commercial beekeeper's approach to the use of primitive hives”, brought requests for more information about the author's own large-scale beekeeping operations withApis mellifera adansonii.Mr. Guy's account of his adaptations of conventional methods—to make the best use of bees that swarm readily, and that can be very aggressive, and rob excessively—makes extremely interesting reading.