I am married to a bee-fetishist*, he is also an insect-botherer and a garden-stealer . During the last eighteen months (the Lockdown project) he has been indulging all of these passions by stealing my garden to make a film about all the bees and other insects that live there. PBS are streaming the movie which is titled 'My Garden of a Thousand Bees'
obviously it should've been 'Lulu's Garden of a Thousand Bees' but apart from that error I have to admit the film is perfectly decent and, judging by the comments on PBS's site, so do quite a lot of other people.
This blog started with an account of filming insects in France, anyone new here and wanting more hymenoptric content could check out some early posts
I just revisited this post and only now realise that the garden theft started in earnest 11 years ago
This post about a disastrous attempt to film a bee hive is from 2009
*he refuses to take my surname so we have to call him Martin Dohrn, he's worried that if he becomes Martin Labonne people will think that he's related to Duran Duran
image credit: Jack - Thank you Jack
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I had to live my native bees (they'd colonised an empty compost bin and sealed it solid with was) when we moved.I still see natives here, but don't know where they actually live. Perhaps they are my old bees?
ReplyDeleteBees are incredibly enterprising, show them a nook and they'll make it homey x
DeleteOh this is exciting!
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in a Grade II listed shed I had bees nesting in the walls - massive Bumbles in the living room sometimes.
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Bumbles have exquisite taste, they knew you were their kind of people
DeleteI can honestly say, it was FANTASTIC! I was waiting for you to pop into the frame at any moment, sweetpea! xoxo
ReplyDeleteSo glad you liked it Sav. My feet got a walk-on part in this one. I got off lightly usually I have to allow them to be nipped or stung by the leading actors
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