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to give you the heeby jeebies wasps/bees

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Winter2020 · 29/04/2022 14:45

Just hanging the washing out - loud buzzing sound. I thought there must be a swarm flying about. Part of our little apple tree is alive with wasps/bees.
What now? I guess I will need pest control as only as smallish garden (with kids) and neighbours smallish garden backing on. Feel itchy now!

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NoToLandfill · 29/04/2022 14:48

Nope you need your local beekeeper!

The Bees are looking for a new place to live. The beekeeper will coax them into a cardboard box & bring them to an empty hive.

Google your town & beekeeping or if you have some local honey phone up the company.

We need our bees! Please dont let pest control kill them.

NoToLandfill · 29/04/2022 14:49

Looks like honey bees to me. Can you post a photo zoomed in?

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 29/04/2022 14:49

Oooo, blimey!

I’d call the council for advice.

FeathersMcGee · 29/04/2022 14:50

Those are bees, not wasps, and are swarming. When this happened in our garden when I was a child, my dad called a local beekeeper who came and gathered them in a skep and took them to a new hive.

Please don’t do anything to harm them!

FallopianTubeTrain · 29/04/2022 14:55

If they are honey bees then they are swarming and will likely go away of their own accord. What happens is, the hives divide and half follow the new queen off to find a new home. They sit somewhere like that for a bit and then move on once they've got a plan in place for where they're going. If they are still there in a day or two then you might need a beekeeper to help them move house but they will likely be gone before it gets dark.

If you have a local Facebook group then maybe take a picture and ask if anyone has lost a hive so they can collect them if they have one that's run away from home.

SmiledWtherisingsun · 29/04/2022 14:59

Call a bee keeper!

Contact these people OP
https://www.bbka.org.uk/swarm

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

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Winter2020 · 29/04/2022 15:04

Ok thanks guys. I gave someone a ring (before I saw your replies) and they advised similarly to you that they are honey bees protecting the queen and in all likelihood will move on in an hour. But if not the only person that can get involved is a beekeeper. No harm will come to them!

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Yarnasaurus · 29/04/2022 15:04

Here's all the info you need:

www.bbka.org.uk/honeybee-swarms

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JesusSufferingFuck22 · 29/04/2022 15:07

It is a bit scary seeing a swarm like that. First time I saw one was walking through a graveyard😬 Quite fascinating to watch (from a distance.) Hope they bugger off soon though.

ShirleyPhallus · 29/04/2022 15:08

Glad to see your update and that pest control won’t be involved!

I thought these swarms usually happened in late summer? Fascinating to see aren’t they

ChuckMater · 29/04/2022 15:09

I've learnt so much from this thread. Fascinating.

Please will you update us OP with whether the bees move or if bee keeper required

CarrieCookie · 29/04/2022 15:13

Wow that's amazing 🤩

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Winter2020 · 29/04/2022 15:14

I'll keep checking if they move on.

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gamerchick · 29/04/2022 15:16

Go on Facebook, find you local beekeeper page, someone will come and collect them. It's not a big deal and some lucky bugger will be able to fill a hive up.

fossilsmorefossils · 29/04/2022 15:18

I love bees. They're really nice as long as you don't step on them. I agree with pp that that's swarming. Saw it once before. Poor things need a new home.

womaniswomaniswoman · 29/04/2022 15:20

Wow, that is INCREDIBLY beautiful and I am mega jealous!

Put out plates of sugar water for them.

UnaOfStormhold · 29/04/2022 15:24

It may reassure you to know that swarming bees very rarely sting - they're stuffed with honey for the journey which makes it difficult for them to bend enough to sting. They also don't have stores to defend so are generally really placid. They will almost certainly be gone by this evening once their scouts report back and the swarm collectively decides (by dancing) on the best home.

leadmeaway · 29/04/2022 15:26

Superb love bee`s,

just to add

World Bee Day was launched by the United Nations in 2017 to celebrate bees and the crucial role they play in the world as pollinators, as well as encouraging measures to protect bees from the threats currently harming them, and to promote beekeeping.

World bee day is on "20 May 2022" 🐝

Watto1 · 29/04/2022 15:28

This happened to us a couple of years ago. They had ‘buzzed off’ by the next day.

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Watto1 · 29/04/2022 15:29

Don’t know why my photo is sideways Confused

CarrieCookie · 29/04/2022 15:32

Where will they go though? What if they end up in someone's shed and they kill them 😱
Can't you find a beekeeper to take them?

vdbfamily · 29/04/2022 15:34

a local better would be delighted if you contacted them as always on the look out for new colonies. If they can't shake the swarm into a skep they will put a little give nearby and how to entice any scout bees looking for a new house!!

stayathomegardener · 29/04/2022 15:48

DH would collect them if you are in Cheshire.

DockOTheBay · 29/04/2022 15:55

We had this in our garden last year. Put out a call for beekeepers on the local Facebook group and had quite a few people who wanted to come and get them. A young man came along in his suit, sawed off the bunch with the swarm and put them in a box, then came back for it a few hours later once all the bees had made their way into the box.

It was really interesting and great to know the bees were going to a good home at the local lavender farm, we went to visit them a while later. The man brought us some honey as a thank you too.

I would really recommend getting someone to come and collect them rather than letting them move on. They will be grateful and so will the bees!

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Winter2020 · 29/04/2022 16:07

They are still here at the moment
I got a bit closer to take these (the close one is zoomed on my phone). Thoughts of them swarming on my head horror movie style - reassured by post they are placid at this time.
My 12 year old described the look of the swarm as "that is terrifying!"

We are Worcestershire- Wyre forest.

(I'll have a look on facebook for local bee keepers.)

to give you the heeby jeebies wasps/bees
to give you the heeby jeebies wasps/bees
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