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Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 9:45 am Post subject: Anybody want some bees?

...there's a bit of work involved, mind. There's a swarm in a tree in Eastbourne Terrace in Paddington. It arrived yesterday and is sitting in a tree minding its own business. Any local beekeepers might want to come and get first dibs on it (I guess you have to get the okay from the council) before some ill-informed busybody decides that they want to get it fumigated. I'd much rather see them go to a deserving home than end up lying dead all over the pavement, which is presumably what will happen if any passers by spot them.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 9:49 am Post subject:
London Beekeepers have a swarm line on 07922 147379.

Lionheart

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 427
Location: Cheshire

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 10:06 am Post subject:
Damn! And there's me sitting patiently with a bait hive up at the top of the garden having missed a passing swarm about three weeks ago.........! Bit far to travel sadly

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 3:10 pm Post subject:

Lionheart wrote:

Damn!

And there's me sitting patiently with a bait hive up at the top of the garden having missed a passing swarm about three weeks ago.........!

Bit far to travel sadly

Nooo, you don't want them city bees with their city ways.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 3:41 pm Post subject:
I'll ask Tim to catch them and bring them home on the 5.30pm from Paddington shall?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 4:06 pm Post subject:

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:

I'll ask Tim to catch them and bring them home on the 5.30pm from Paddington shall?

My sister's partner once carried a swarm of bees in his motorcycle top box round the North Circular!

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 08 9:25 pm Post subject:
I hope they move on before October, when the company I work for is supposed to be moving to a building on Eastbourne Terrace!

spicycauldron

Joined: 28 Aug 2007
Posts: 418
Location: North Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 08 7:26 am Post subject:
They need to be dealt with quickly. I think Jo's advice in providing the swarm phone number is spot on.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 08 8:54 am Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

I hope they move on before October, when the company I work for is supposed to be moving to a building on Eastbourne Terrace!

They will move on and find a hole somewhere quickly - I imagine they already have if no-one caught them. Otherwise they will all die.

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