It buzzes a few meters above the head of Frédéric Roux, a beekeeper from Nîmes. A swarm of bees has taken up residence on the branch of a lime tree in the Natural History Museum. They must be moved today for security reasons.
Hat, net and white protective suit, Frédéric is equipped to approach the bees. “When you enter the bullring with a bull, you have to take certain precautions. It’s the same there.I am the toreador of the bees“jokes Frédéric. A beekeeper for ten years, he notably collects swarms like today at the Nîmes museum. It is not by chance that these bees have taken up residence on Boulevard Amiral Courbet.”A swarm when it settles somewhere, it is he who chooses it. He must be in a passable place, there must be food like this big linden treeexplains the beekeeper, if we don’t bother them, they can stay ad vitam æternam on this branch.”
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But from a security point of view, it is better to remove them to avoid any incident. “We could leave them, but there is passage, it is enough that there is wind, it is enough that it is unhooked. No risk does not exist“, indicates Frédéric Roux. The mission of the beekeeper is to recover it and move the bees so that they can develop without disturbing the population. They will be temporarily moved to the beekeeper so that he can follow their development before their departure for hives installed near fields of lavender or chestnut trees.
