It is bound in a hand-made cover, and contains tiny botanical samples of flowers collected over the apiarist's calendar year, which are important to sustaining the health of the honeybee.
The 52-year-old apiarist said in his 40 years in the industry he had found that the more farmers used chemicals, the more he encountered problems with bees.
The state apiarist was consulted and told troopers that while the motorist's method of transporting the bees was "very unsafe," it did not require a permit.
