Mating flight

[Anonymous]

:D Al

[Jay]

Al!!!!!!! You were peeking!!!!!! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Beth Kirkley]

WoW! How in the world did you manage to catch that shot?

Beth

[Anonymous]

I didn't take the picture myself. While doing research for a Magazine article I'm writeing I ran across this picture taken for a PBS documentry did in 1998. They found a drone stageing area and built a tall tower to get as high as the drones and waited.

Yes I was surprized to learn that drones have stageing areas where they wait for virgin queens. Then this morning I finally got to the place in Longstroths book the hive and the honey bee where it tells about them. Amazing I have read 4 beekeeping books a couple twice and I had to find this fact in one published in 1858.
:D Al

[leominsterbeeman]

Hey!  Is that Porn on this site?   :)

[Anonymous]

Bee porn for sure. Should I remove it? Funny I never gave it any thought that some people might object?

:D Al

[asleitch]

>Bee porn for sure. Should I remove it? Funny I never gave it any thought that some people might object?

Eh? Thats not porn - its nature. Reproduction is a natural act.  We are beekeepers and that shot is of amazing value in so much as it's an almost never seen part (and hence limited knowledge) of beekeeping.

Adam

[Horns Pure Honey]

that is a great shot!!!!!!!!!!  :D  :D  :D

[Apis629]

I just say, as a male myself, that you can skip the next few frames where the drones abdomen explodes as he falls to the ground; dead.