The swarm gathers underneath the saddle of a bike locked to the railings of a metro station.
19 hours ago
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor
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A swarm of at least 10,000 bees has been removed from under the saddle of a bicycle parked outside a metro station in front of the Louvre museum in Paris.
The swarm settled on the bike shortly after it was locked to the railings of the Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre metro on Saturday afternoon.
Paris transport officials then closed the metro entrance while a local Parisian beekeeper was called in to collect the insects.
"It was certainly in an unusual place, right next to the entrance to a metro," said Volkan Tanaci, who reached the scene by bike.
"It was a real cluster of bees, and probably there was a queen bee right in the middle," the urban beekeeper told France Info.
The bike's owner posted the whole scene on the @ma_pauvre_lucette Instagram account, saying that "granddad's old bicycle" had barely been parked for half an hour when the swarm arrived.
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