Bees are downright amazing things, although a lot of people can be wary of them due to them being armed with their tiny stingers.
One apiarist recently posed a video of her moving an entire swarm of bees with her bare hands, showing a lot of people that they don’t necessarily need to be as scared of bees as they may think.
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Professional beekeeper Erika Thompson loves sharing her bee antics on TikTok.
The Texas-based beekeeper has garnered a lot of attention on social media of late by sharing videos of the amazing work she does with bees.
Erika’s latest video to go viral was shot when she was called to relocate a swarm of bees under an umbrella.
Erika started her work relocating the bees by scooping them up…with her bare hands!
The reason why Erika was able to do this was because the bees did not have a queen or any young to protect, and as such they were very docile due to not having any resources to defend, Erika explained.
Erika began scooping the placid bees and placing them into a hive.
Once most of the bees had been placed into a temporary hive, Erika introduced the queen-less bees to a new queen, which she had brought with her in case such a situation arose.
The queen was housed in a special container, as if the colony rejected her then they would kill her.
The colony rushed to meet the new queen, and if they didn’t try to kill her then they would try to release her from her tiny box by chewing through the piece of candy release at the end of her minuscule cage, Erika explained.
Thankfully, the bees accepted their new queen!
Once the queen was in the hive, and the colony had mercifully chosen to save her, the bees in the hive sent messages to the bees in the umbrella to come down to the hive — which they did, only further proving that bees are just incredible little critters!
Erika then took the bees back to her apiary.
Erika brought the bees back to her apiary so that they could keep doing all of their vitally important bee-business while not disturbing other people or being disturbed by other people.
Last Updated on June 2, 2021 by Paddy Clarke
