Alvéole Beekeepers
Alvéole is a Canadian company that provides the unique service of maintaining beehives at other companies in urban locations. They started in Montreal, but they now do business in 60 cities across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
The company started in 2013, and in 2015 they produced the world's first naked beekeeping calendar (above), showing urban bees and beekeepers.
Above, another image from 2013. Smoke is used to tranquilize bees.
Beekeepers aren't afraid of bees. They know that bees are not aggressive unless you do something to anger them. Above, a French version of the 2016 calendar. It looks like this guy has honey or something smeared on him to attract the bees.
Here's a photo from the 2017 calendar.
And this guy covered with bees is from 2018.
In 2021 we see a guy dripping honey into the palm of another guy with no bees in sight. Could it be "Roses are red, violets are blue, honey is sweet and so are you"?
These urban beehives are also from 2021. Alvéole sells their beekeeping work as a way for companies to be environmentally conscious and support biodiversity.
You may have noticed that the calendar photos have no frontal views. We end with this photo where he was smeared with honey or something in a strategic place so it would be covered with bees. I know that beekeepers aren't afraid of bees, but wow!
7 comments:
Will have to look for Alvéole honey at the local supermarket. (they are a local company to me). That takes a lot of confidence in th bees to let them cover your sensitive parts.
Wow, I could never do that!
I live in Montréal and Frenfh is one of our Canadian official language with English. French is mostly used in Province of Québec but in Montréal since few years, sadly, English is more an more used in the city.
Not to mention that when i go out like in the metro trains, I ear many other languages like Spanish or Arab etc.
Québécois are struggling to save our French language as we are surronded by huge English in North America.
JiEL, Il y a longtemps, j'ai étudié le français à l'école de la 6e à la 12e année. Je ne me souviens pas tout cela, mais j'aime la langue.
I had a hand with lots of hornets walking around on it while I was weeding beans one time. It was a very sensuous feeling, but I finally decided that I was pushing my luck, and I couldn't avoid crushing one between my fingers, so I gave up weeding that morning. I would NEVER want any bees landing on my genitals. That fellow is a real daredevil!!!
Do they sell calendar? I want one! My favorite calendar are
https://barefootman.org
https://www.australianfirefighterscalendar.com/
Cool pix. Those rocks in the next to last picture look like they would be more painful than a bee sting.
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