[Images: From The Elephants & Bees Project “Beehive Fence Construction Manual” (PDF)].
Designing for humans, insects, and elephants at the same time, University of Oxford zoologist Lucy King has developed “the honey fence system,” Edible Geography explains.
[Images: Via The Elephants & Bees Project].
A honey fence is “a series of hives, suspended at ten-metre intervals from a single wire threaded around wooden fence posts. If an elephant touches either a hive or the wire, all the bees along the fence line feel the disturbance and swarm out of their hives in an angry, buzzing cloud.”
“By encircling a village with a cordon of hives,” we read, “the village’s crops are protected.”
Read more at Edible Geography.