“Natural World: Queen of the Savannah” – Tonight on BBC Two, 8.00 pm

This evening on UK television: the BBC’s award-winning flagship natural history series “Natural World”

‘Queen of the Savannah’  doesn’t refer to a lioness but to an African honeybee on the plains of Kenya”

“The queen African honeybee rules the savannah – even elephants panic at the buzzing of her hive.

This recreates the life of the queen and her colony as they fight to survive.

Ground-breaking close-up photography shows a bee-eye view of their world, from the queen murdering her sisters to fighting off giant invaders and eventually migrating across the savannah to the great Mount Kenya.

 

Via: BBC

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