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  • Observing intense bee activity from inside the beehive. Loaded with pollen, foragers return from their morning round. White or orange pollen, each bee concentrates on one flower species. A forager weighs 100 milligrams and can fly with a load of 70 milligrams of pollen.

  • Driven insane by honey on a comb left in the open, the bees feast on honey and pillage the combs. They have become aggressive and their excitement soon spreads to the entire apiary..

  • A bee greets a drone as it is being born. The bee will feed the drone directly from its mouth as the newborn is exhausted by the effort produced to come out of the cell. One can clearly see a difference in size in the faceted-eyes of the bee and drone. The worker bee's eyes have 4,500 facets each and the drone 7,500 per eye.

  • On a Ceanothus flower, a crab spider (Thomisus onustus) traps a pollen-gathering bee in a thread of its web and unhurriedly consumes it.

  • A beekeeper of the Marais Poitevin area inspects his beehives in a sunflower field spreading to the horizon. This rich sedimentary, clayish water retaining soil is perfect for this crop. On good years, sunflower honey production can yield up to 80 kilograms per beehive.

  • To impress crowds, some beekeepers will wear an impressive bee beard. There is a trick. The apiculturist places a cage containing a queen around his neck. Bees will naturally flock to protect her. They are in swarming conditions hence totally harmless...

  • A Beekeeper at work with his smoker in breathtaking landscape of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc in the background

  • In the Basque Country, this farmer, who is nearing retirement, still owns a few straw hives.

  • The modern hives used in Argentina are made of two parts. The body is where the queen lays eggs, its the bees' habitat, where they raise the brood and stock the honey and pollen that feeds the larvae. The supers, to which the queen does not have access, for the production of honey. When the super is full, the beekeeper takes it out to harvest the honey and replaces it with an empty one.

  • The Bracho approaches an island. The banks play an important role in regulating the delta by allowing the vegetation to absorb the excess water from periodic floodings. Dikes, already widespread in the south, present a major threat to the delta's future.

  • All of Carlos' hives are set up on piles. Despite this precaution, he lost three quarters of his stock, nearly 800 hives, when in 2006 the water rose four meters in a few hours.

  • The gatherer constructs the scaffolding as he climbs it: a rudimentary but effective technique that only requires transporting the raffia, the wood being cut on the spot.

  • The reward following the harvest.

  • Joseph lights an armful of dried grass to smoke out this colony, which has found refuge in an abandoned termites' nest.

  • Here, time stands still. This same phantasmagoric harvest spectacle was taking place 30,000 years ago, when the first honey hunters faced the savage swarms.

  • The outer part of the wax disc is occupied by the brood cells harboring the larvae. Bolo Kesher must first slice this away using a long bamboo pole fitted with a wooden tip that has been whittled to form a flat blade.

  • For four hours, Bolo Kesher stays suspended between earth and sky to harvest the cliff's eight nests, each new colony visited setting off a renewed attack.

  • The unloading of the 1200 hives begins under a winter sun. Finally freed, millions of bees fly around in all directions for a cleansing flight.

  • On the Babadag Plain, Onéa Dinu and his 17 year old assistant, Lorin. Lorin is a student. In the summer vacation he helps Dinu during the migration. For two years now he has been initiating himself in beekeeping. In the center, Andreï, Paola's assistant. He arrived three days before and sleeps in Paolo Balasa's "lodge".

  • Ionel Farcas Cozmin's family from Mures are all here. Women, children, baby and the grandfather spend several weeks on the road camping. More than 600 km from their home in the region of central Transylvania, they take advantage of the summer. It's a bit of a vacation because Iulian, Ionel's son, works as a civil servant the rest of the year.

  • Onéa Dinu Calin and Lorin prepare the hives for this evening's journey. The linden honey period is reaching its end and tonight a 180 km journey awaits them, at a speed of 40km/hour. Tomorrow morning, they will find themselves alone in an immense field of sunflowers further south, a kilometer from the sea.

  • Sabit Galin, busy harvesting, chases away the bees with his smoker. The Burzyan bee is particularly mild-mannered and rarely attacks a scrupulous beekeeper. .

  • In the school, Rafic Yumaguzhin teaches beekeeping to the young of the village since 1993.

  • Issangugin Sentimir harvests a bortye on a honey fir tree surrounded by silver birches. The bortyes are supposed to deter bears. In the past, Bashkirs went bear hunting, bringing along their sons to initiate them in the practice. The bear was a source of food.

  • .Paris, Opera Garnier. Jean Paucton, 76 years old, set up his hives twenty years ago on the roof of the Opera just by chance. A prop man at the opera, he took courses in beekeeping at the Société Centrale for apiculture in the Luxembourg gardens. Sharing his time between Paris and the Creuse, he didn't know what to do with a hive given to him by a friend. It was the Opera fireman, who himself bred fish in the underground pond beneath the opera, who gave him the idea of setting the bees up on the roof of the Garnier..

  • On the roof of the Grand Palais in Paris, Nicolas Géant opens a hive. "The honey of the Grand Palais will be sold on the spot. For the moment, there are two hives, and the goal is to have five or six. I want to systematize this operation with the big companies in a city, in Paris and elsewhere: I am mounting a project with Google in California where half the roofs are equipped with solar panels. My main message is to again put the bees as close as possible to Man, like they have always been.".

  • A bee sucking up honey.

  • Andrew Coté, 38 years old, beekeeper and English teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Adam Johnson, 35 years old, associate lawyer in a New York law firm, inspect two hives in an aerial garden of a building on 4th Ave and 13th Street in the East Village of Manhattan. Adam Johnson grew up near Los Angeles in a house with a family garden. Alive to nature since childhood, he is looking to meet other beekeepers in New York and was initiated into apiculture a year ago with Andrew.

  • As he is surrounded by thousands of bees, Then Mari's nimbleness is striking. It's a reminder that the Irulas have always been protected by forest goddess Magaliaman who granted them an immunity to the bee's venom.

  • Brazil, Bragança, State of Pará. Stingless bees, Melipona fasciculata, returning to their modern hive.

  • Brazil, on the Rio Para channel of the Amazon Delta, Professor Giorgio Venturieri brings the hives of his design to the peasants for one of his study programs.

  • The queen bee, surrounded by several females, on the brood cells, which for this bee, the Melipona seminigra pernigra, are built horizontally. The melipones are social bees; the colonies bring together 500 to 2000 bees and the queen bees sometimes have to ask with insistence to be fed, beating their wings to demand it. Contrary to domestic bee Apis mellifera, there may be several virgin queens in a melipone bee colony, but still with only one laying eggs.

  • In the nest of this Friseomelitta sp bee, the brood cells destined for the larvae are built like eggs. This bee's size is no bigger then 8 millimeters.

  • The little trigone bee, Tetragonisca angustula, which only measures 4 millimeters, builds a wax cone of a few centimeters to protect its honey supply. The cone's color depends on the plants that the bee has visited.

  • Bees on a comb of honey and brood.

  • The village of Korcho on the Omo River, a Karo beekeeper gets ready for the harvest.///Village de Korcho sur le fleuve Omo, un apiculteur Karo s'apprête à la récolte..

  • In the land of the Bana tribe, the harvest of the hive trees takes place at nightfall by moonlight.///Dans le pays de la tribu Bana, les récoltent des arbres à ruche se déroulent à la tombé de la nuit à la lumière de lune..

  • At night, a member of the Maale tribe inspects his apiary-house with the flame from a smoker. He says proudly that he has had one colony for 14 years now and another since 8 years ago.///La nuit, un membre de la tribu Maalé inspecte sa maison-rucher à la flamme d'un enfumoir. Il dit avec fierté avoir une colonie depuis 14 ans et deux autres depuis 8 ans

  • In the land of the Bana tribe, a beekeeper inspects a hive when the colony is full at work and there are fewer bees inside it. African bees are known for their aggressiveness.///Dans le pays de la tribu Bana, un éleveur inspecte une ruche quand la colonie est en plein travail et qu'il y a moins d'abeilles à l'intérieur. Les abeilles africaines sont réputées pour leur agressivité..

  • In the City, with, in the background, 30 St Mary Axe, the skyscraper designed by Norman Foster and Partners for Swiss Re, the urban beekeeper Brian Mc Callum is inspecting a hive on the roof of Sir John Cass Primary School. He and his sidekick John, the school's gardener, take care of a hive in the hanging garden of this kindergarten and primary school. Brian is a pro-bee activist. As a beekeeper, he is trying to set up as many hives as possible in London. For this, Brian founded a company in 2006 called Urban Bees and he offers courses in beekeeping and classes for companies. Before he turned his passion into a business, Brian was a university geography professor. H worked in the world of advertising and was a sailing enthusiast who spent many nights holding onto yacht riggings on the Atlantic Ocean. He has a B.S. in geography and environmental studies from the University of Surrey. He lives in Battersea with his wife Alison and their bees.

  • Joel Hemesley in a suit on the hives of the Royal Lancaster Hotel. Just a stone's throw from Hyde Park, the hotel's bees have been gathering honey from the flowers in the royal gardens. Joel joined the hotel's green team, which takes of the hives, the idea being to produce local honey to serve to guests but also to help the bees survive. "With the help of our mentor, Luke Dixon, fives hives were set up in the summer of 2009 and today we have ten. My work at the hotel is no picnic: I'm part of the managing team and I handle corporate sales to foreign companies and I travel a lot. My first encounter with bees occurred in school when I was twelve years old. At that time, in the context of the Duke of Edinburgh's program, we were supposed learn a trade and I chose apiculture. I hadn't reopened a hive until we put into place the hives at the hotel. Bees are really fascinating creatures. I love the way the life is organized around the colony. Each bee has a role to play in the population's survival and I love feeling that harmony.

  • Erica Mayr, jeune femme de 37 ans pose avec une Trabant, une ruche et un enfumoir devant Check point Charlie. Cette jeune femme a fait un buzz médiatique en 2010 quand elle a posé ses premières ruches sur les toits d'un hangar à Berlin. Apicultrice depuis seulement 3 ans, Erica est propriétaire d'un bar branché dans le quartier de Kreuzberg. Aujourd'hui, Erica est heureuse car les abeilles et l'apiculture s'harmonise avec son métier et sa formation universitaire de paysagiste et d'horticulture./// Erica Mayr, 37 years old, posing with a Trabant, a hive and a smoker in front of Checkpoint Charlie. This young woman got the media buzzing when she placed her first hives on the roof of a warehouse in Berlin. Beekeeper since only 3 years ago, Erica is the owner of a trendy bar in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. Today, Erica is happy, because the bees and beekeeping are in line with her profession and university education as a landscaper and horticulturist.

  • Philipp Markert, 26 ans avec ses ruches sur l'église de la résurrection à deux pas d'Alexanderplatz et de l'allé Karl Marx. Cette église a été transformée après la chute du mur en centre de conférence environnemental avec un toit végétalisé et des panneaux solaires pour produire de l'électricité. « Je travaille comme chef cuisinier dans un restaurant et j'ai également suivit une formation d'ingénieur des technologies du bois à l'université...j'ai commencé l'apiculture il y a deux ans après un séminaire sur les abeilles. «  Je déteste les pesticides et je fais mes courses en produits bio sur les marchés locaux. C'est difficile d'être un activiste écologiste en Allemagne alors je défends les traditions, la bonne cuisine et les produits biologiques et je boycotte les supermarchés, l'industrie alimentaire qui utilise des pesticides. »/// Philipp Markert, 26 years old, with his hives on the Church of the Resurrection steps from Alexanderplatz and Karl Marx Avenue. Following the fall of the Wall, the church was transformed, into an environmental conference center with a vegetal roof and solar panels to produce electricity. "I work as the head cook in a restaurant and I also studied to be an engineer in wood technologies at university... I started beekeeping two years ago after a seminar on bees. I hate pesticides and I shop for organic products at the local markets. It's hard to be an ecological activist in Germany so I defend traditions, good cooking and organic products and I boycott supermarkets and the food industry that uses pesticides." .

  • L'abeille et la rose...les abeilles butinent rarement sur les roses qui ont peu de nectar mais qui quelquefois, elles plongent au plus profond de cette fleur pour récolter son pollen.///The bee and the rose... bees rarely gather honey from roses which have very little nectar but sometimes they plunge deep into the flower to get its pollen

  • Sebastian Spiewok, pendant l'inspection d'un ruche. Sebastian as la chance d'avoir ses ruches installées dans un jardin ouvrier comme il y en a beaucoup à Berlin. En effet, la compagnie de chemins de fer allemand avait l'habitude de garder des terrains autours des voies et de distribuer ces terrains à ses employés. Une solution habile pour pouvoir garder des terrains pour de nouvelles constructions. Très passé de mode pendant longtemps, les terrains des jardins ouvriers ont intéressé les promoteurs immobiliers pendant quelques années...mais aujourd'hui, la tendance s'inverse. Les jardins sont a nouveau très convoités par la génération des trentenaires./// Sebastian Spiewok during the inspection of a hive. Sebastian is fortunate to have his hives set up in a garden allotment, of which there are many in Berlin. As it was, the German railway company had the custom of keeping the land around the tracks for their employers. Also, a clever way of keeping land for eventual new construction: out of fashion for a long time, the land with the allotments interested real estate speculators during a few years, but today, the tendency has reversed itself. The gardens are once again much coveted by the thirty-somethings..



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