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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian Camera Club: Matthew Price on pet photography

Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
Drinking circles Bees getting drunk and docile after the smoke triggers them to save their honey
Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
The search for the Queen The Queen is kept in the bottom chamber. She cannot reach the upper chambers. This stops the queen from intervening with the honey being produced elsewhere in the hive
Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
Protecting the photographer! I was stung twice (squashing a bee taking photos on this occasion) so the smoke masked the alarm pheromone!
Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
Layer by layer The beekeeper checks every layer to assess the health of the colony
Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
Royal Prisoner One of the hives lost their queen and there is no sign of eggs, so this queen from the back up hive is having her wings clipped. She was then marked with tippex and placed in a cage. So she cannot fly back into the back up hive Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
Matthew Price pet: Matthew Price camera club pet assignment
Saving the stock
Photograph: Matthew Price/Flickr
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