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  • Two bees practice mouth-to-mouth food transfer called trophallaxis in social insects. Bees not only transfer food but also a multitude of chemical substances, hormones which help communication in the colony.

  • A week after their combs were capped, well fed larvae have started pupating into fully formed nymphs. Twelve days after the beginning of this rest, a young bee is born.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.".

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • In a flowering almond orchard, Orin Johnson, Californian beekeeper, inspects a hive.

  • 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.

  • .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..

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Alkar Isanomatov and Issangugin Sentimir, forest wardens and beekeepers, leave on horseback to harvest their bortyes on behalf of the reserve.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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..

  • Sampling the honey///Dégustation de miel..

  • 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.

  • 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.

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