Off Topic – openSUSE Lizards https://lizards.opensuse.org Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:29:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bee Keeping: Catch a Swarm https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/06/06/bee-keeping-catch-a-swarm/ https://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/06/06/bee-keeping-catch-a-swarm/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:52:50 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=7499 Quite off topic, but for those of you who are interested in bee keeping as I am I for once like to share a video that we were able to create on a sunny sunday morning recently:

It shows the activity of catching a bee swarm that has been going out of the bee hive before. Swarming is natural behaviour of bees for reproduction. In early summer the bees create a new queen and as it is emerging, the old queen is swarming out of the hive looking for a new home. One form of the old and meaningful circle of reproduction.

A bee swarm is a very impressive event, the clip might give you an impression. And as our seven year old son was brave enough to take this movie, I thought it is worth sharing. Bee keeping is a family virus 🙂

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