LPRE001
A truce at the watering hole between two sworn enemies, the hornet and the bee.
LPRE002
On a Ceanothus flower, a crab spider (Thomisus onustus) traps a pollen-gathering bee in a thread of its web and unhurriedly consumes it.
LPRE003
Aethina tumida,
the small hive beetle,
arrived in the United States
in 1996 and in 2004
it was feared that it might
settled in France.
LPRE004
A beekeeper holds dead bees in his hands near his hives in a colza field.
LPRE005
A beekeeper of the Marais Poitevin area inspects his beehives in a sunflower field spreading to the horizon. This rich sedimentary, clayish water retaining soil is perfect for this crop. On good years, sunflower honey production can yield up to 80 kilograms per beehive.
LPRE006
An apiculturist
shakes a frame
to check the amount
of nectar collected
by the bees
during their days
on a sunflower field.
Droplets of nectar falls off
the frame, a sign there
will be a lot of honey.
LPRE007
On the flight board, bees confront a wasp.
Finally, after trying its luck at the entrance of the bee hive, the predator did not engage in a fight with the guards.
LPRE008
In the bear-reintroduction area of the Pyrenees, electrified fences were installed to prevent attacks on apiaries in the medium mountains from mid-May to late September.
LPRE009
Franck Aletru,
in the Vendée,
was one of the first
beekeepers to denounce
the use of Gaucho
on sunflower fields
as the cause of the loss
of half his livestock.
LPRE010
Aethina tumida,
the small hive beetle,
arrived in the United States
in 1996 and in 2004
it was feared that it might
settled in France.
LPRE011
Varroa, the parasitic mite from the Indonesian island of Java.
LPRE012
Varroa,
the parasitic mite
from the Indonesian
island of Java.
LPRE013
Varroa, the parasitic mite from the Indonesian island of Java.
LPRE014
Varroa,
the parasitic mite
from the Indonesian
island of Java.
LPRE015
Jean-Claude Cauquil, a beekeeper in Haute-Garonne. Fifty percent of his hives were destroyed within two weeks in 2002.
LPRE016
Maurice Coudoin of Lot et Garonne, in the shed that he transformed into an anti-Gaucho campaign site after tons of Gaucho-treated seed were illegally buried by an unscrupulous farmer 500 meters from his residence.
LPRE017
Maurice Coudoin of Lot et Garonne, in the shed that he transformed into an anti-Gaucho campaign site after tons of Gaucho-treated seed were illegally buried by an unscrupulous farmer 500 meters from his residence.
LPRE018
Bernard Fau,
attorney-at-law,
has been defending
the apiarian industry
since the start of
the Gaucho controversy
in 1995.
LPRE019
Late August signals the praying mantis high season.
LPRE020
Late August signals the praying mantis high season.
LPRE021
A bear paw print found on a destroyed apiary frame close to the Pyrenees National Park.
LPRE022
Varroa, the parasitic mite from the Indonesian island of Java.