Antipodes

Long ago, when I was working at IBM headquarters in Paris, a friendly but loud-mouthed French colleague, whose first name (if I remember co...

When BeeMan stepped out onto the lawn in front of flight headquarters this morning, the onlookers were in a state of excitement. Even a do...

I’ll be fetching my swarm of bees tomorrow afternoon. They’re arriving on a truck from some mysterious place in the Middle East, so I hope ...

This afternoon, for the first time since my childhood in Australia, I had a closeup view of a swarm of bees. My neighbor Jackie had c...

Beehives have to be painted, because they’re left outside all year round, in all kinds of weather. Most often, beekeepers use an aluminium-b...

Fabien and Melody are experienced beekeepers, who have recently installed a row of hives at Gamone, in a small sloping field just opposit...

Click to enlarge On the left, my Gamone neighbor Jackie Ageron is wearing his special beekeeper’s jeans, designed to give the little ...