SINGAPORE - The hive heaved with each cut made into the branch that held it, but the colony of red dwarf honey bees (Apis florea) seemed otherwise undisturbed.
For night had fallen, and all other lights at the balcony of the Marine Parade apartment where the insects had built their home were turned off - save the red light used to document the process.
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