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Buckfast bee, Placing a virgin queen with workers and food for adoption in the hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Open hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, A cupule is installed before the queen hatches. It is called "morel" because of its shape, Central region, France

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The Banas were beekeepers well before becoming farmers ten years ago. Ownership of the trees bearing the hives predates land ownership and it is passed down by inheritance. So, on the land of Oïta’s concession, there is a tree holding a hive but Oïta owns neither one nor the other and in no case can he cut this tree down without the hive owner’s permission. Karo people, Omo valley, Ethiopia

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To try to defend the colony from this incessant predation, the bees fight back by forming a cluster on the flight board. They thus save a few foraging bees returning after gathering nectar and pollen from the flowers. France

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Face-off between David and Goliath. The bee has no chance of defeating the formidable predator that is the Asian hornet Vespa velutina.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers produce an abundance of nectar. The nectar is secreted by the flowers to attract the insects who thus ensure the flowers' reproduction by transporting the pollen from the pistils to the stamens.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for the others bees. The males' cells are a third bigger. Their width is 8.75mm and their depth 16-17mm as opposed to 6mm and 12mm for the worker bees' cells.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and carries out 3 to 10 flights per day during 10 to 20 days of activity. A hive has between 100,000 and 200,000 foraging bees and thus harvests between 60 kilos and 300 kilos of honey per year.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning it, transform it into honey by lowering the moisture level from 80% to 17%. The buccal exchange between bees, the trophallaxis, plays a role in the making of the honey through the addition of enzymes.

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Highly productive beehives in Vanoise. Champagny-en-Vanoise, Savoie, France

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Honey extraction. Beekeeper extracting honey frames from a hive. A queen excluder can be seen between the body and the top of the hive, Sarthe, France.

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Honey extraction. Beekeeper extracting honey frames from a hive, Sarthe, France

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Honey harvest, frame of honey to be uncapped, here in a hive, Sarthe, France

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Honey harvest, honey extraction, here the hive frames, Sarthe, France

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Pedagogical honey harvesting, Honey harvesting in front of the public, here the desoperculation of beeswax on a hive frame at l'arche de la nature, Le Mans Métropole educational area, Sarthe, France

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Harvesting honey. Honey frames from a hive for extraction, Sarthe, France

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Harvesting honey. Frame of honey from a hive for extraction, Sarthe, France

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Green setting, decoration, park, Val d'Ajol, Vosges, France

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Wooden beehive with Miel (honey) written on it on the Col du Lautaret, in Villar-d'Arene, France.

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Extracting honey. Frame of honey still capped, with the extractor or centrifuge on the right. Dadant frame from the top of a hive of the same name. Beekeeper in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France

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Beehives with chimneys in the Jardin des Plantes, Le Mans, Sarthe, France

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Hives set up in a meadow in the Normandy bocage in spring, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers next to a "Warning Bees" sign, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers next to a "Warning Bees" sign, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers next to a "Warning Bees" sign, France

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Beekeeper checking his hives in a field of sunflowers next to a "Warning Bees" sign, France

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Supermarket milk aisle, France

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Supermarket milk aisle, France

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Beehives with bees in the countryside, Sarthe, France

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Beehive in winter, Sarthe, France

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Honey sale from our apiary, Oize, Sarthe, France

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apiary, hollow tree trunk set up for bees making honey, dry shrub savannah, Laïkipia County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

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Wax combs from a bees' nest in Ariège. Bee (Apis mellifera) nest on a cliff in Ariège. France

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Swarm of Honeybees (Apis mellifera) entering a capture hive, Finistère, France

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Beehives in spring, Doubs, France

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Swarm of bees on a branch in a garden after it left a beekeeper's hive on a stormy day, Lyon, France

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Man (model released) looking for queen bee amongst swarm of Bees (Apis sp), Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia

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Buckfast bee, placing a virgin queen with workers and food for adoption in the hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, placing a virgin queen with workers and food for adoption in the hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Birth of a virgin queen before installation in the hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Transfer of a virgin queen to an adoption cage, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Transfer of a virgin queen to an adoption cage, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Royal cells at the end of the incubator, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Heated incubator with temperature control, Centre Region, France

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Buckfast bee, Collecting a larva from royal jelly to raise a queen, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Genetically selected breeding queen. Queen stock for breeding other F1 queens, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, workers at work, Centre Region, France