Celebrate the Bees - End of Mazey Day Penzance 2010

Mazey Day Penzance after the last parade "Men & maids" outside of the Dock Inn and Dolphin Tavern.
A live band is playing to the crowd at the side of The Dock Inn when a swarm of bees decends following
it's queen looking for a new home.

Amazingly people were not too concerned probably because folks in this part of the world appreciate that
the english honey bee is quite a passive bee and only interested in flowers. However these bees had other
things on their minds and were following their new queen and looking for a home.

This seemed to be the spot as well as all the worker bees were following the queen into a tree right next to
where the band was playing.

After they had been settling for awhile beekeeper and swarm co-ordinator Dave McIntosh arrives on the
scene to capture the bees and take
them to a new hive. Amazing how he does it, cool as a bee!

Nice one Dave, expertly done. Now lets celebrate those bees with a nice pint of Heligan Honey ale!

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If a swarm of bees lands in your garden, and you would like the assistance of a beekeeper
to either advise you, or to remove the swarm, then contact your local Beekeepers Association - SEE lINKS BELOW

DO NOT TRY AND DISPOSE OF A BEE SWARM YOURSELF OR USE PESTICIDES
The removal of honey-bee colonies from structures needs to be planned by experts. Do not attempt it yourself because,
even if you kill the honeybees, you will leave behind a lot of their honey which will attract other honeybees and wasps,
so you will be back to where you started. Any residual pesticide will be picked up and transferred to other colonies
of honeybees and kill them too. Most poisonings of honey bee colonies occur for this reason.

The so-called 'killer bees' (or more correctly, Africanised honeybees) beloved of movie-makers
DO NOT OCCUR IN THE UK.

British Beekeepers' Association
http://www.britishbee.org.uk/index.php

West Cornwall Beekeepers Association
http://www.westcornwallbka.org.uk/index.htm

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