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A new friend of mine (warning: big pics)

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well I've a relevant story, last weekend I helped my Beekeeper father answer a call from a distressed member of our community that had his lunch interrupted by a swarm of bees. My Dad helps maintain a local apiary and it seems that a swarm had left a hive and jumped the fence to a nearby garden, so as I was visiting home at the time my Dad laid a guilt trip on me to assist him in collecting the swarm. Off we went with him chuckling away as I was getting more and more worried with thoughts filling my head of being attacked by a whole swarm! The swarm itself was covering a shrrub growing at the back of the garden and covered and area of about an A3 page, but these bees were tightly packed in together, I've never collected a swarm before but I was still surprised how we went about it. Basically I held an open cardboard box right up underneath the swarm, I was wearing no protective clothing apart from a beekeepers hat, which included a veil over my face, but otherwise a T-Shirt and trousers. While I was holding the box my dad started shaking the branch the bees were on so that the majority of them fell inside the box, of course what happend next was that my Dad and I were surrounded a bee storm! However by keeping calm and making sure as many bees as possible were off the shrub we placed the box open end down onto a blanket on the ground with a bottle propping the box up to allow bees to freely enter. By now a few bees were getting very curious and were landing onto my arms, and I had to calmly flick them off, we made sure that there were no more bees slumped together incase they created their own swarm and then carefully walked away. I still can't believe I didn't get stung once, and my Dad only had one sting on his hand, inspite of the fact that we were inside a swarm of bees they didn't react to this and the one sting was the only casualty of the day. My Dad returned that night once the bees had collected into the box and cooled down to take them away to their own hive. I would never attempt this with a wasp swarm! [url=http://www.alebie.com][img]http://www.geocities.com/blaise69dude/images/BlaiseSig.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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