Topless Woman Dances with Bees

Posted on May 12, 2014

Mapelli, 44, has created a lot of Internet buzz by topless dancing with 12,000 bees all at once.

The Portland, Oregon-based beekeeper describes her bee dances as “a duet among many.”

“These 12,000 bees push with their powerful wings from each side of my body, I resist and then I let go and flow and move with them,” she writes on her website.” It is a deep meditation and I feel the hive mind surround me, hold me, and expand my body on a cellular level.”

In order to attract the bees to her topless body, Mapelli anoints her body with a special pheromone oil that is equivalent to the scent of 100 queen bees.

The bees usually stay on her body for about two hours at a time.

When Mapelli is done shaking her tail feather with the bees, an assistant removes the pheromone oil around her neck and then she jumps up and down to shake off the swarm, the Daily Mail reports.

She then removes any stingers sticking to her flesh with a soft brush.

Mapelli believes her bee dances send a message to the bees as well.

“I hope to help the bees of the Northwest by encouraging them to swarm and become hardy to the ever-changing environment,” she said in the description for a bee dance video posted to YouTube in 2012.