Until I watched this video, I did not know I was apiphobic.

Now I do.

Volunteers from the Portland area offered their services, wearing a beard of live honeybees at OMSI on Halloween, while Canadian honeybee expert John Gibeau talked about what makes honeybees special during his visit to Portland. Gibeau works with honeybees in the film industry using his expertise on films such ‘Wicker Man’ starring Nicolas Cage.

Video by Oregonlive’s Tim Brown for Idaho’s Portugal: Volunteers with bee beards create quite a ‘buzz’ at OMSI

Tim also maintains a very entertaining personal blog: By the beard of Zeus

Update: And here’s another take on the OMSI apiphobia event, from Brewcaster: Beard of Bees

Beard of Bees from brewcaster on Vimeo.

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