collecting the swarm

Goodness , I wonder if anyone was stung ?

Oh dear...hope they weren't yours,Gattina !

Do you take your Bee's shopping with you ? Lol.

No, thank goodness, Bloomer - ours are far too sedate and British (I'm not joking) to do anything like this, and anyway, they were 50 miles away in their nice, quiet, country orchard. This was the centre of Bologna in the main road! It was the sheer size of the swarm that astonished us. I believe that if bees are swarming, they aren't very likely to sting, but these had been jolted and disorientated by the earthquake, we were told, so who knows?

I'd guess they were frightened!

It was difficult getting an accurate explanation as to how they got there. I couldn't believe how many people were standing that close!

Yeah! it wouldnt be me! lol

That can be quite frightening! We had a small swarm of sorts in our bathroom last week! There were about 20 buzzing about inside and a couple of hundred more trying to get in through the slightly open window. Obviously we didn't want to go charging in and kill them, so we shut the window, quietly crept out, shut the door and gave it half an hour. By that time the bathroom bees had quietened down and settled on the bath mat so we were able to take it outside where they all flew off and hopefully re-joined their swarm, which we saw swirling around the village for a couple of hours. Happily the size of our swarm was nowhere as big as 'yours' Gattina!

Not "ours", Nariz, Thank goodness! Our own little colony is very happy up in the orchard, going about it's day to day business collecting nectar in the sunshine, and when it's rainy, blowy or cold, staying peacefully at home, watching daytime t.v. ;o)

What DO bees watch on TV? Honey Street? Honeydale? Honeyenders? Honey or No Honey? ;o)

"Your honey or your life", or "The hive o'clock news" , maybe? (or maybee, even)

Just saw on our news last night that some downtown Toronto office buildings are now putting bee colonies(??) on their roof tops. Apparently, in the city, you are not allowed hives within 30m of a dwelling or public property.

I saw a programme (can't remember which, now - oh yes, it may have been River Cottage) where it showed quite a collection of hives on London rooftops. I am fairly certain that this Italian swarm had come from a rooftop, too.

I am amazed how many people seem to be quite happily watching - I think I'd be walking swiftly in the opposite direction!

Just walking?

Mmmmm... perhaps not!

Am I seeing correctly? Is there policeman regulating bees, or what? My God.

Italians are amazing people, Katarina........:o)

I love Italians, Gattina. For certain reasons which are valid for life. On the other side, to live there, it is really a humoresque sometimes. But I like it too. Because life is sometime too dark. And Italians know a lot about light.

We get the best light in the world here, I think, K. And we celebrate it!

I hope Grana Padano won´t be more expensive. It is very healthy cheese according to recent studies :)) I am also happy, that among five healthiest cheese in Europe (some immunomodulation as well as antihypertensive properties) WHO listed Padano, some Swiss and Belgian mountain cheese and Slovak mountain cheese.
Good news about old things we knew :))))

I like Grana Padano, and it is produced not far from here (We live in a region in which Parmesan is produced), but I have to say that I prefer Pecorino stagionato, which is made from ewe's milk, but otherwise quite similar: OH's sister has problems digesting cows' milk, so this is on her shopping list every time she visits.
I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that G.padano will be very much more expensive.

Pecorino is saltier, so I guess it doesn´t have as antihypertensive properties as Grana Padano or Parmiggiano....