ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GooglePaul KirbyEurope digital editor@ma_pauvre_lucetteThe bees settled under the saddle of the bicycle 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.
@ma_pauvre_lucetteThe bees settled on the bike outside a metro station within sight of the museum
