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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: recoil on July 08, 2012, 09:59:27 am

Title: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: recoil on July 08, 2012, 09:59:27 am
I've got some honey bees swarming on my apple tree and I need to get rid of them. Located in Blackwood, NP12. My phone number is 07890051743 and I could do with them gone ASAP. Thanks.  :)
Title: Re: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: Bionic on July 08, 2012, 10:14:58 am
recoil, have you contacted yout local bee keeping club? They usually have a swarm coordinator who can arrange for someone to come and get them
Sally
Title: Re: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: P6te on July 08, 2012, 09:51:21 pm
As Sally said, I do know that the majority of Beekeepers Association have a list of people in their area  who will collect, alternatively you could put a post in the BeeKeeping Section on here.

Pete
Title: Re: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: recoil on July 10, 2012, 08:51:22 pm
They disappeared not long after I posted on here. Hope they haven't decided to make any of our sheds home.
Title: Re: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: P6te on July 10, 2012, 10:05:59 pm
When a swarm lands and clusters (as I assume was the case in your Apple Tree) they have just left their old home (usually a beekeepers hive) and have temporarily settled whilst 'scout bees' go off in search of a permanent home.  (The scout bees are potentially a few hundred worker bees, a strong prime or first swarm may contain in the region 25,000  bees)

When the scout bees have located a suitable place they return to the swarm and tell the bees by way of the waggle dance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance) where the location is and they all then set off for their new home.

Pete
Title: Re: Free Bees - South Wales
Post by: Maria1969 on July 12, 2012, 08:42:02 am
Wow P6te.....Bees are just fantastic, clever little bugg*rs thats for sure.
 
Maria  ;D