LPR001
A bee stinger is stuck
into a patient’s skin.
LPR002
A bee stinger is stuck
into a patient’s skin.
LPR003
Pinecone-shaped candies redolent with sweet honey and eucalyptus.
LPR004
Pinecone-shaped candies
redolent with sweet honey
and eucalyptus.
LPR005
Pinecone-shaped candies
redolent with sweet honey
and eucalyptus.
LPR006
Professor Bernard Descottes, with many years of experience at the Limoges university hospital, has used thyme honey bandages for 25 years to help wounds heal more quickly.
LPR007
Professor Bernard
Descottes, with many
years of experience
at the Limoges
university hospital,
has used
thyme honey bandages
for 25 years
to help wounds heal
more quickly.
LPR008
Professor Bernard Descottes, with many years of experience at the Limoges university hospital, has used thyme honey bandages for 25 years to help wounds heal more quickly.
LPR009
A royal cell filled with jelly.
Royal jelly is exceptionally
nourishing and allow
bee larvae to grow
like no other species
in the animal kingdom.
Royal jelly will allow a larva
to see its weight multiply
by 1,800 in five days.
LPR010
A bee inspects a royal cell filled with royal jelly.
Royal jelly is essential for the development of a colony. This secretion mixed with pre-digested pollen is produced by the pharyngeal glands of the young nursing bees. It is an exceptional nutrient allowing bee larvae to grow at a pace with no equivalent in the rest of the animal kingdom.
LPR011
A queen cell filled
with jelly with the larva
in the center.
LPR012
A bee stinger is stuck
into a patient’s skin.
LPR013
A bee stinger is stuck
into a patient’s skin.
LPR014
A bee stinger is stuck
into a patient’s skin.
LPR015
A beekeeper and beehive for apipuncture treatments using bee venom.
He extracts a bee using a tube, and then specific points on the body are stung with the bee’s stinger.
LPR016
An at apiary facing the Mediterranean near Hyeres, France, Jacky Darras tends to his bee hives without protective net or beekeeping gear. This scene has more meaning than it seems. Jacky has had multiple sclerosis for 25 years. He owes his remission to apitherapy.
LPR017
A block of wax.
LPR018
Propolis
is a very odorous sticky
paste bees use to seal
the hive. A thin layer of it
also covers the combs
of the hive.
Propolis is responsible
for the smell of wax.
LPR019
Propolis is a very odorous sticky paste bees use to seal the hive. A thin layer of it also covers the combs of the hive. Propolis is responsible for the smell of wax.
LPR020
Pollen is harvested by having bees pass through a grid.
LPR021
Pollen is harvested by having bees pass through a grid.
LPR022
Pollen is harvested by having bees pass through a grid.
LPR023
A pellet of thyme pollen
near pellets of cistus,
poppy, apple and
rosemary pollen.
Pollens are made of
a multitude of microscopic,
spherical grains contained
in the pollen sacs
of the flower anthers.
LPR024
A pellet of thyme pollen
near pellets of cistus,
poppy, apple and
rosemary pollen.
Pollens are made of
a multitude of microscopic,
spherical grains contained
in the pollen sacs
of the flower anthers.
LPR025
Propolis is malleable and very sticky when warm. It becomes very hard and easily breaks when cold. Bees produce it with sap they collect on buds.
LPR026
Propolis is malleable
and very sticky when warm.
It becomes very hard
and easily breaks when cold.
Bees produce it
with sap they collect
on buds.