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You’ll never guess what this [beekeeper] loves to do in his spare time [w/pix]
Metro [UK] ^ | 10 Apr 2014 | Mark Molloy

Posted on 04/10/2014 10:24:58 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


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To: fieldmarshaldj

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


21 posted on 04/10/2014 11:28:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
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?

22 posted on 04/10/2014 11:32:06 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Salamander

23 posted on 04/10/2014 11:34:41 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

I see what you did there.


24 posted on 04/10/2014 11:38:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Agent Of Fortune)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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!


25 posted on 04/10/2014 11:44:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Slings and Arrows

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


27 posted on 04/11/2014 1:21:02 AM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yikes!

You can’t be ticklish for that job!


28 posted on 04/11/2014 1:30:55 AM PDT by Daffynition (The price of gas when Heussein took office: $1.81/gal)
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To: F15Eagle

Hey! I stole that fair and square!


29 posted on 04/11/2014 1:35:14 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Daffynition

Or itchy.


30 posted on 04/11/2014 1:36:01 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: right way right

Good question.


31 posted on 04/11/2014 1:37:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: lee martell

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


32 posted on 04/11/2014 1:39:51 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Bullish

Hey, me too!


33 posted on 04/11/2014 1:40:49 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
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.

34 posted on 04/11/2014 3:00:30 AM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
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To: Battle Axe

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?


35 posted on 04/11/2014 3:26:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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


36 posted on 04/11/2014 3:33:37 AM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Slings and Arrows

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


37 posted on 04/11/2014 3:57:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I know She is a he, I used his name. :-P

It's early.

38 posted on 04/11/2014 4:08:17 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Make sure she doesnÂ’t get ahold of the gom jabbar)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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


39 posted on 04/11/2014 4:11:47 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Make sure she doesnÂ’t get ahold of the gom jabbar)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Smoke.


40 posted on 04/11/2014 4:54:18 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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