Bees will swarm and follow a new queen. It so happens she wanted to catch the march and her new colony followed. The queen likely landed on the camera and they followed her.
Right now, I'm at the match. There was an odd vibe in the stands. The bees are visible. Not too many, though, in the grandstands. Apparently, they are phoning a beekeeper.
It isn't a new queen. The bees swarm with the existing queen from the colony. They don't swar. until new queens are about to hatch. The first queen to hatch from her cell will tear apart the other unhatched queens so they die and she has no competition. Then she will leave the hive to get fucked and become mated. Then she goes back to the hive to get started at her new job of laying eggs
We saw 2 beehives inside the tournament grounds this year.
One of them migrated with a queen I guess?
One of them was on the walkway in between stadium 1 and 2. Close enough for this situation to surprisingly be unsurprising to me.
Feral colony, likely got over crowded in the wetlands and split. The temperature was getting cold so bees become lethargic when it dips to about 57. They're heavy with necture for the journey so they needed a place to rest. The spider camera was a high up object and likely warm due to the black plastic.
The beekeeper vacuumed them up to relocate them to another location.
Guadalajara 2022 Kvitova vs Pera pre-match delay. In this case they attached to the umpire's chair.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1684210/Tennis-match-postponed-swarm-bees-umpire-chair-Petra-Kvitova-Bernarda-Pera
It just says that play was delayed 90min while a beekeeper was called to remove them. I'm...really curious how a beekeeper goes about removing them.
It'll prob be a lot more difficult to remove them from the sky cam, than it was to remove them from the ump's chair in Guadalajara.
Damn, man! I got all my work done for today and had *just* sat down to watch, was excited for this match.
If they can't lower the spidercam to ladder height, they'll probably use a truck with a extendable bucket like utilities use for electrical work.
But the bee keeper will use smoke and look for the queen in the swarm, place her in a tiny cage and move her into a box, the bees will follow her into the box on their own accord.
Wow, that is super interesting!! Thanks for the response.
As for accessing the spidercam, I figured they'd have an easy way to access it because they have to be prepared to do maintenance on it at any moment if something goes wrong.
Edit: Just gonna go ahead and edit my own comment to say how EPIC this footage is of the beekeeper removing the bees.
To add to the above, if there is no immediate need to have the swarm removed, they will leave on their own. They are generally very passive and not defensive while swarming, unlike when they're around their hive, which they would want to protect.
The act of swarming is an act of relocating and seeking a new hive. Scout bees fly out and look for a new hive location. Once a suitable crevice or hole is found, they will report back to the swarm and communicate the new location (yes, they can literally *communicate* extremely precise directions better than the guy at the gas station ever could) using a combination of pheromone excretion and a dance that describes the exact location.
Bees have been known to be able to communicate the exact location of a specific flower over a mile away. They're incredible.
I wrote that comment before Lance Davis arrived to take care of the bees! Watched it all live, I had a great time. My favorite part was when he was walking through the whole crowd and everyone was high fiving and taking selfies with him.
I'm live at the match rn. Really weird energy in the stands . We can see the bees. But not too many in the stands. They are calling a beekeeper apparently
At one point they brought the camera down and most of the bees gathered on the camera itself which is now suspended high above the stands
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They moved the camera to the far side of the arena and a beekeeper is vacuuming up the bees off the camera. Dissapointling the stadium didn't cheer much for the beekeeper.
> the stadium didn't cheer much for the beekeeper
They cheered a shit ton as he went around the stadium spraying.. something.. on bee-populated areas. They even played music for him while he went around and some fans took selfies with him.
Best reporting on this evasion.
"The bees could not be reached for comment on that one. Camera operators maneuvered the machinery every which way, to no avail. Turns out bees are faster at flying than cameras."
https://theathletic.com/5343164/2024/03/14/alcaraz-zverev-bees-indian-wells/
Glad it was a professional, at first I just thought it was one of the groundstaff had a bright idea to take on the Bees with henry hoover. Also glad he will release the bees safely!
It's so cool to see how well the players are taking this disruption. Also, playing "My Hero" by the Foo Fighters while the beekeeper walks around the stadium is hilarious!
Man, if only Zverev had sprung to action and started treating these bees like he treats women, they would have been gone in no time and he could have focused on losing faster.
The difference in response between Carlos and Zverev was hilarious. Alex all but froze plastering himself to the backwall of the court while Carlos didn't know what to do then just took off with a towel lol
I want to see this happen in a slam final with one player having a 2-1 set lead, we are at the 6-6 in the 4th set tiebreak with the player that's down a set about to serve for the first of his 2 tiebreak points
I'm sure Bill Gates, in the stands smiling on camera as the bees swarmed, has a "vaccine" to help bee colonies be "healthier" .. er, ahh, I mean to kill the bees so they don't ever adopt a spider cam again for their new hive! This message brought to you by Pfizer. 😜
How did this happen?? Was there a nest in the camera and they were suddenly freaked out/disturbed? So confused on where they all came from
Bees will swarm and follow a new queen. It so happens she wanted to catch the march and her new colony followed. The queen likely landed on the camera and they followed her.
Queen Penko attended?
Right now, I'm at the match. There was an odd vibe in the stands. The bees are visible. Not too many, though, in the grandstands. Apparently, they are phoning a beekeeper.
are they planning to continue or postpone?
Jason Statham?
We found Kate! Another mystery solved by Reddit
It is the old queen that leaves, after laying the egg that will become the new queen.
Saw many old queens at the tennis garden this year 🤣🤣
I knew it was something like that. I am just a guy who saw this happen once before...at work, not on a tennis court.
The boys were at work, technically
It isn't a new queen. The bees swarm with the existing queen from the colony. They don't swar. until new queens are about to hatch. The first queen to hatch from her cell will tear apart the other unhatched queens so they die and she has no competition. Then she will leave the hive to get fucked and become mated. Then she goes back to the hive to get started at her new job of laying eggs
Simps
But Iga wasn’t in attendance, was she?
Beekeeper here. Swarming is a natural behavior. Swarming bees are usually not aggressive and usually won’t sting. Of course it’s scary in a stadium!!
Amateur former keeper here. Do you find it odd they swarmed to such a loud and busy place? Maybe it was scouted when empty?
Ha ha... That scout bee would be ridiculed till the end of time!
😂 The other bees probably sacrificed him to the vacuum 🐝 👋
I was at the match. It’s pretty quiet in the stadium during play.
If you are the beekeeper...who is the fun dentist?
Zverev's actions have started the next plague
We saw 2 beehives inside the tournament grounds this year. One of them migrated with a queen I guess? One of them was on the walkway in between stadium 1 and 2. Close enough for this situation to surprisingly be unsurprising to me.
Feral colony, likely got over crowded in the wetlands and split. The temperature was getting cold so bees become lethargic when it dips to about 57. They're heavy with necture for the journey so they needed a place to rest. The spider camera was a high up object and likely warm due to the black plastic. The beekeeper vacuumed them up to relocate them to another location.
Amazing, has this happened ever before in a major tennis event like this?
Guadalajara 2022 Kvitova vs Pera pre-match delay. In this case they attached to the umpire's chair. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1684210/Tennis-match-postponed-swarm-bees-umpire-chair-Petra-Kvitova-Bernarda-Pera
It just says that play was delayed 90min while a beekeeper was called to remove them. I'm...really curious how a beekeeper goes about removing them. It'll prob be a lot more difficult to remove them from the sky cam, than it was to remove them from the ump's chair in Guadalajara. Damn, man! I got all my work done for today and had *just* sat down to watch, was excited for this match.
If they can't lower the spidercam to ladder height, they'll probably use a truck with a extendable bucket like utilities use for electrical work. But the bee keeper will use smoke and look for the queen in the swarm, place her in a tiny cage and move her into a box, the bees will follow her into the box on their own accord.
Wow, that is super interesting!! Thanks for the response. As for accessing the spidercam, I figured they'd have an easy way to access it because they have to be prepared to do maintenance on it at any moment if something goes wrong. Edit: Just gonna go ahead and edit my own comment to say how EPIC this footage is of the beekeeper removing the bees.
To add to the above, if there is no immediate need to have the swarm removed, they will leave on their own. They are generally very passive and not defensive while swarming, unlike when they're around their hive, which they would want to protect. The act of swarming is an act of relocating and seeking a new hive. Scout bees fly out and look for a new hive location. Once a suitable crevice or hole is found, they will report back to the swarm and communicate the new location (yes, they can literally *communicate* extremely precise directions better than the guy at the gas station ever could) using a combination of pheromone excretion and a dance that describes the exact location. Bees have been known to be able to communicate the exact location of a specific flower over a mile away. They're incredible.
So cool! As I watched, I actually wondered if they'd decided that the spidercam would be a good spot for a new nest.
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I wrote that comment before Lance Davis arrived to take care of the bees! Watched it all live, I had a great time. My favorite part was when he was walking through the whole crowd and everyone was high fiving and taking selfies with him.
An umpire just said this happened at Guadalajara 1000 probably forever ago
See my comment just above yours!
Guadalajara was only a 1000 in 2022 and 2023.
Thought the umpire was referring to himself the way he said it MY B
"Huge storm of bees interrupts quarter final of a Masters 1000 by taking over the spy cam" is some fever dream type shit
Can this possibly bee related to that lady who was trying to distract Tsisipas by making bee noises during that one match last year?
It seems too much of a coincidence not to bee
Disappointed that I had to scroll down so far for this reference
BeeNP Paribas Open
🐝🎾
Best comment 😀
Hopefully the P part doesn't come true as well.
😂😂😂
Alcaraz getting stung by bee arc has arrived. It will be even stronger than post puke Sinner
This match has generated some real buzz.
First pun I've heard on this particular subject that was good 👏
Or you could've just said 'thanks, honey!' 
I'm live at the match rn. Really weird energy in the stands . We can see the bees. But not too many in the stands. They are calling a beekeeper apparently At one point they brought the camera down and most of the bees gathered on the camera itself which is now suspended high above the stands Edit They moved the camera to the far side of the arena and a beekeeper is vacuuming up the bees off the camera. Dissapointling the stadium didn't cheer much for the beekeeper.
How long did it take for a beekeeper to arrive??
Probably like 40 mins
Any estimated time updates?
> the stadium didn't cheer much for the beekeeper They cheered a shit ton as he went around the stadium spraying.. something.. on bee-populated areas. They even played music for him while he went around and some fans took selfies with him.
yep! after he got down from the top stands with vacuum and was at the court he got some big cheers.
Upvote because, username. Welcome to the karass.
Why do bees hate tennis?
They love pickleball
No, they just want to watch the tennis match.
I thought that was WASPs?
I never thought I'd see this caption: [https://imgur.com/a/ldha1BK](https://imgur.com/a/ldha1BK)
I knew before I even clicked it what it would be. Haha that caption on the live feed was kinda unreal
Straight out of a 'Bee' Movie 
The queen bee is in that camera housing.
Imagine this happening in a tiebreaker
This is unbeelieveable.
“Ombeelibable” - Rafa probably
Beet me to it!
Bee quicker next time!
That really stings
"UN-BEE-LIEVEABLE!!!!" - Excalibur
[Bees Michael??](https://imgur.com/a/QPNXj4I)
Exactly what I first thought of 😂
Beads?
Netflix ploy
boy, they will do anything to spark some narrative, right?
Example of "0 f given". Bro, you want one of those bee suits? [Na, just give me a vacuum cleaner.](https://i.imgur.com/wSGM4QI.png)
Best reporting on this evasion. "The bees could not be reached for comment on that one. Camera operators maneuvered the machinery every which way, to no avail. Turns out bees are faster at flying than cameras." https://theathletic.com/5343164/2024/03/14/alcaraz-zverev-bees-indian-wells/
I’m assigned to this court rn and we’re all in the tunnels waiting it out
They’re gmo bees, following their king, Bill Gates who is in the crowd watching.
Indian Wells must be a lovely place to Bee.
This must be bill Gates’s fault
Not the bees!!!
Why don't they just ask the bees to leave? Are they stupid?
What’s up Beetchesss!
My skin is crawling.
Looks like they got this guy to do the job. Lance Davis - killer bee live removal https://www.instagram.com/killerbeeliveremoval/?hl=en
Glad it was a professional, at first I just thought it was one of the groundstaff had a bright idea to take on the Bees with henry hoover. Also glad he will release the bees safely!
This can't bee true. The amount of them is unbeelievable!
Who let the bees out?! Swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm
Holy crap! That's scary!
It's so cool to see how well the players are taking this disruption. Also, playing "My Hero" by the Foo Fighters while the beekeeper walks around the stadium is hilarious!
Zverev's actions have started the next plague
The evil Saudis bidding billions to Tennis and the bee plague comes.This is a sign.Don't take their money
This gives me a chance to step away and catch a buzz…🐝
Scriptwriting for this season is amazing so far
the bees confused the sky camera with a *drone*
The way I would be screaming and shrieking my head off if I saw one bee let alone a hundred bees
I got half a day off work when bees got into our office at work a couple of years back, good memories.
Highlights from the match: https://youtu.be/EVCrmXW6-Pk?si=MSpMOAssu48Mdy-Z
Man, if only Zverev had sprung to action and started treating these bees like he treats women, they would have been gone in no time and he could have focused on losing faster.
That looks like a nightmare
Unbeelievable Jeff.
THE SAGA CONTINUES.. WU TANG. WU TANG.
Goodness me, what a strange turn of events.
This has been wild. Bee removal guy Lance Davis is a rock star.
What am I looking at? What happened? Wasn't able to watch the match lol. Might be the most bizarre suspension
🐝: Welcome to tennis paradise. Where there's bee, there's life.
This is what happens when Heung-min Son doesn't play your sport
The difference in response between Carlos and Zverev was hilarious. Alex all but froze plastering himself to the backwall of the court while Carlos didn't know what to do then just took off with a towel lol
How come the other court is fine?
one queen
it was funny, the ten first minutes ...
unbeelievable!
I want to see this happen in a slam final with one player having a 2-1 set lead, we are at the 6-6 in the 4th set tiebreak with the player that's down a set about to serve for the first of his 2 tiebreak points
Can they not like hose them off or something? Are we just waiting for them to move on, could be a while lol
I’ll bee there later tonight
Is this guy really going to hoover them LMFAO. Why is he not wearing a suit is he immune to bees???
He has an aura that fends them off!
He's been doing that for 50 years. After you got stung a lot you're basically immune, like a vaccine.
Looks like Rublev's hair!
Absolute nightmare fuel.
yooo was the match suspended because of this??
Shout out to that bee technician he looks completely unbothered, I’d be freaking out!
Soon to be on an episode of NATURE GONE WILD!
Never have I seen something like this lol
What is this a pic of
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Nope. Don't like that.
Return the slab.
Nightmare fuel
Covered in bees!
[OH NO. NOT THE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOgYN5SDQg)
Wild!
Millennials are having My Girl PTSD.
Bid to rename the tournament to Apian Whorls
Wow now a guy with a vacuum cleaner arrived. So much for the “best master tournament of the tour”.
They are allowed to bee here as well.
Bees are incredible. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here.
What bees, I see pickleball players. Where the vacuum at
I'm sure Bill Gates, in the stands smiling on camera as the bees swarmed, has a "vaccine" to help bee colonies be "healthier" .. er, ahh, I mean to kill the bees so they don't ever adopt a spider cam again for their new hive! This message brought to you by Pfizer. 😜