More than 20,000 hectares of rapeseed cover Luoping county in Southwest China's Yunnan province, luring hundreds of beekeepers when the flowers bloom every spring.

The keepers pitch tents by the fields and make do with only basic living conditions during the season.

Luoping is home to an estimated 80,000 hives of bees, which produce more than 2,000 tons of honey.

Many beekeepers come from the neighboring Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region during the season. Their family members often help clean the hives, collect honey and sell it outside their shelters.

In their semi-nomadic way of life, they have gotten used to the regular cycle of loading the hives onto trucks and moving from place to place.

(China Daily USA 10/30/2014 page10)