Ouch!!!

[Gower]

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[bob777]

Looks painful mine have been angry last few times that Ive done them but not that bad!!!

 

[Swarm]

Have the SBI pay you a visit, guaranteed to upset your apiary. Talk about bull in a china shop!!! Wound up the bees until they were stinging like crazy.

 

[Outlander]

Thats a great pic.

 

[keith pierce]

Hi grower. Great picture. I never have stopped to think about a photo when i get stung, but my first reaction is to give the bee a slap and get the stinger out.

 

[Luminos]

Hi grower. Great picture. I never have stopped to think about a photo when i get stung, but my first reaction is to give the bee a slap and get the stinger out.

 

[victor meldrew]

Have the SBI pay you a visit, guaranteed to upset your apiary. Talk about bull in a china shop!!! Wound up the bees until they were stinging like crazy.

Unfortunately the bee inspecters' job requires shaking bees off every frame , otherwise he could easily miss a small patch(single cell even)of foul brod;the principal reason for his visit
Any inspector not going to this extent is falling short of doing the job properly , then you would be wound up as well as the bees
VM

 

[RogueDrone]

cool photo well done! It does look a bit like AFB rope... Hope you was proven clean by the inspector.

 

[Swarm]

Unfortunately the bee inspecters' job requires shaking bees off every frame , otherwise he could easily miss a small patch(single cell even)of foul brod;the principal reason for his visit
Any inspector not going to this extent is falling short of doing the job properly , then you would be wound up as well as the bees
VM

It's not what but how. I know they need to be thorough, just as we need to be when looking for queen cells, that's not my complaint.
Lack of care and rough handling of the frames is what stirred them up.

 

[Easy Beesy]

Photo looks familiar - where did you copy it from?

 

[Lois]

That looks as if it would be sore. I'm lucky that our bee inspector is really great and is respectful of the bees. The last time she came to see them they behaved and she didn't use much smoke.

 

[Lorenz]

Have the SBI pay you a visit, guaranteed to upset your apiary. Talk about bull in a china shop!!! Wound up the bees until they were stinging like crazy.

Had SBI out twice within a week to different apiaries and he was smoothness personified. What was more surprising, but perhaps shouldn't be, is that his bee handling skills and knowledge get better and better every year.

 

[tonybloke]

That looks as if it would be sore. I'm lucky that our bee inspector is really great and is respectful of the bees. The last time she came to see them they behaved and she didn't use much smoke.

sounds like you had Sylvia over to visit, Lois?

 

[johnandyrob]

Have the SBI pay you a visit, guaranteed to upset your apiary. Talk about bull in a china shop!!! Wound up the bees until they were stinging like crazy.

I had the sbi out last week for a Europe wide study into bee health longer inspection than normal a sample of 500 bees taken from each hive. He was at my apiary for 8 hours and my bees where on their best behavior for once. Cant fault the way he handled the bees.

 

[Lois]

sounds like you had Sylvia over to visit, Lois?

Yes I did.

 

[Gower]

apologies but I cant take credit for the photo myself, I thought I would post it out of interest. A friend emailed it to me as he knows I am a beek - I think it was included in a chain type email of unusual photos of the natural world.

 

[Tom Bick]

Yes I was thinking where I had seen it before and you just reminded me of that email a friend sent me.

 

[keith pierce]

Photo taken by Kathy Keatley Garvey

UC Davis communications specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey in the Department of Entomology said she has taken at least 1 million photos of honeybees in her lifetime, but this snapshot won the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. The international organization includes communicators, educators and information technologists.
Garvey has bees in her blood: As dairy farmers, her father and grandfather kept bees to pollinate their orchards. She said bees have been in her family since around 1850.
Garvey recognized an opportune time to capture this photo when she was walking with a friend. A bee came close to him and started buzzing at a high pitch. She said that's normally a telltale sign that a bee is about to sting, so she readied her camera and snapped four photos.
The images showed the progression of the sting, but the most interesting part was that the bee's abdominal tissue lingered behind, she said.
"As far as I know, nobody's been able to record anything like this," Garvey said. She said the only time she's seen it illustrated was in a textbook.
She said her love of bees led her to create a garden in her backyard so she can constantly observe and photograph them.

 

[alldigging]

UC Davis communications specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey in the Department of Entomology said she has taken at least 1 million photos of honeybees in her lifetime,

Thank you for posting that!

A million photos?! Does that mean this is a one in a million photo?

It is an amazing photo.