You’ll never guess what this [beekeeper] loves to do in his spare time [w/pix]

Metro [UK] ^ | 10 Apr 2014 | Mark Molloy

[Slings and Arrows]

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He successfully attracted a whopping 460,000 bees, weighing over 45kg (99lbs), local media reported. Good effort.

Mr Ping broke the Guinness record for World’s Heaviest Bee Suit in 2012 when he attracted more than 330,000 of the flying insects.

[Slings and Arrows]

Yeah, I realized that afterwards. My brain was fried from seeing him covered with 100 POUNDS OF BEES, for crying out loud!

[right way right]

What do you do when you decide you want to discontinue beeing a bee colony?

OK I'm done, how do I get them off?

[shibumi]

[Salamander]

I see what you did there.

[lee martell]

Every Bee Collectors worst nightmare: you finally get all 100lbs of bees to cover you head to toe when guess what? You gotta take a number two Bowel Download real. REAL bad, and right now! Oy vey!

[Bullish]

I don’t know.... I usually try to keep bees off of me.

[Daffynition]

Yikes!

You can’t be ticklish for that job!

[Slings and Arrows]

Hey! I stole that fair and square!

[Slings and Arrows]

Or itchy.

[Slings and Arrows]

Good question.

[Slings and Arrows]

You **** yourself. Which seems a reasonable reaction under the circumstances.

[Slings and Arrows]

Hey, me too!

[Battle Axe]

Message from your FReeper Entomologist.

It's easy to do and it was an assignment in class. When bees swarm they act like they are on drugs. They cluster around a queen. So this guy would have had to have some queens in cages attached to him and then his helpers just shook some frames of bees on him.

They also could have used queen pheromone and then set some swarms nearby. They would have had a short window to get them all to land and take the picture.

This guy probably “likes” bees, but the bees are attracted to the scent of the queen. And they are NOT in the stinging mode.

Anyone can do that, you just have to know how.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe anyone can do it, but I’m not anyone. Not for all the hot air in Washington, DC.

Just out curiosity, how do you get them off again?

[verga]

Everyone needs a hobby, but this ridiculous. Keep ‘em, sure, wear ‘em, no I don’t think so.

[a fool in paradise]

The pics where She is wearing a bee Speedo are a bit much...

[Silentgypsy]

I know She is a he, I used his name. :-P

It's early.

[Silentgypsy]

The assistants probably move the caged queens somewhere else and the bees follow?

[Abathar]

Smoke.