Honey… I’m home!
It began as a bit of fun and became a personal challenge for one semi-naked man and approaching half a million bees. Crowds gathered in Chongqing, southwest China this week to watch – at a distance of 20 metres – as She Ping’s wife and five fellow beekeepers covered the 34-year-old in a “bee dress” made of 456,500 of the insects. It weighed 45kg or more.
“I first did this at 22, just for fun and out of curiosity. Later on, I would put on the bees just for the sake of making people believe I sell actual real honey,” he told the Chongqing Evening Post. “The last time I did this, I put on a total of 15 beehives on my body, but today I’m breaking my own record [with 28].”
The beekeeper said he was “hot, suffocating and nervous” after his 40 minute ordeal and had been stung more than 20 times. His wife fears he will be badly hurt if he continues the stunts. But She added: “The only thought I had was to challenge and overcome myself.”
Drinking and high-fiving bees apparently go together.
Bee Gives a High Five….well, I thought it was pretty cool. Ok I’d had a beer, or two.
An amazing picture capturing nature’s life and death struggle.
If you’ve ever wondered why honeybees tend to die after stinging someone, this picture says it all. In an incredible capture by Kathy Keatley Garvey, a UC Davis Communications Specialist in the Department of Enomology, we see a bee stinging a person’s arm and then attempting to fly away as the stinger remains lodged in the victim. That trail of goo you see? It’s actually the bee’s abdominal tissue. The remarkable capture netted Garvey the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition.On the fortunate timing, Garvey said she was walking with a friend and a bee came close to him and started buzzing in a high-pitch. She said that’s normally a telltale sign that a bee’s about to sting, so she readied her camera and snapped four photos.
For most of us, a pot of golden honey is only a supermarket away.
But for the Rai people of Nepal, gathering the sweet stuff involves a death-defying climb on home-made ladders – and a four-hour mission to extract the precious nectar.
To make matters worse, the daredevil hunters come under attack from swarms of the world’s largest bee while perching 250ft up the side of a cliff.