If you suffer from melissophobia, or the fear of bees, this video is definitely not for you. <br /><br />It shows professional honey collector Suk Mahammad Dalal tapping a massive nest of bees without any protective gear. <br /><br />Incredibly, he then stuffs handfuls of the insects inside his vest to keep them out of the way while he collects their precious honey. <br /><br />Dalal, 31, who has been collecting honey for the last 15 years, says he has become immune to bee stings. <br /><br />He doesn’t feel the pain, though the stings sometime leave behind minor swellings around the lips. “I just need a hot cup of tea to recover from them,” he says. <br /><br />Dalal used to work as an assistant to a doctor, who practised Indian system of medicine, in Kolkata. <br /><br />Fed up with his poorly paid job, he noticed that the doctor was using copious amounts of honey in the medicines, he prepared. <br /><br />“From my childhood I was good at climbing trees. I had seen beehives hanging from the trees in my village, Chingeni in Bankura. So, I went back home to become a bee collector,” says Dalal. <br /><br />The initial days were scary as the stings hurt and left behind swollen limbs. <br /><br />“I was once bitten by over 300 bees and became unconscious. I was tempted to return to Kolkata for my earlier job,” he says. <br /><br />But he persisted and slowly the pain disappeared and the limbs stopped swelling. <br /><br />Dalal says while he likes to get playful with the bees, he takes care to not to hurt them.
