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ālig
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A medium-sized honey bee.
This variety builds their hive in a hole in a tree, a large rock crevice or a hole in a secure location such as a stone wall. The hive is a series of hanging wax plates with cells on either side. Wax, lilin, from a hive is used to lubricate warp threads, inobol, in weaving and in making jewelry molds, hibug 2. The larva, bātol, is boiled and eaten as a side dish.
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Honey from the hive of ālig bees.
Cooked sweet potato, lapnay, is dipped in honey and eaten as a delicacy; honey is added to rice beer, bayah, in making sweet wine, hubul; it is also used as a topical medicine for chicken pox, balattung.
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