Rant Attacked by bees

I believe Bees are a protected species in the UK.

 

Yeah, due to the decline of the Bee population i'd get them taken care of properly - if they're in a handy suitcase they might be even easier to take away than normal (flatmate is a beekeeper in his spare time and occasioanlly gets called out to remove swarms)

 

Sell it on ebay - 'suitcase with unique security feature'.

 

gently move the hive into a purpose built enclosure in your garden ..

 

call a local bee keeper they will happily take them off your hands

or become one yourself

british bee keepers association

 

LOL +1

 

KILL IT WITH FIRE

No seriously - gasoline and a match what could possibly go wrong?

 

I dont think they are mate, they are after all just insects.

 

Call your local beekeepers association which you can find through the British Beekeepers Association. They will gladly take the hive off your hands. In your area:

Simon Nuttall 0776 9935949, Mobile 0776 9935949
Forest Lodge, Forest Road, Oakmere, Cheshire.
Email: simon.nuttall @ bodycote.com.

Pete Sutcliffe 01477535374
2 Hatfield Court, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, CW4 7HP
Swarm collection limited to radius of ten miles.
Email: h.p.sutcliffe @ googlemail.com.

This hive is probably a colony that swarmed and established itself in your loft some time in June or July. At the end of August colonies start winding down for winter and they stop foraging by the end of September --even in mild autumns there would be few flowers left to forage. Right now your colony is just living off its honey stores and trying to get through the winter. They will be cold and slow and will not swarm. Don't disturb them and they won't be a problem.

For this reason also moving them right now would be delicate. The hive will be at its smallest now so can be transferred to a 'nucleus box' and fed with sugar syrup to make up for the loss of their stores. With luck they can then be introduced into an empty hive in Spring. (EDIT: the only problem is that you cannot transfer the eggs, which means that there may not be enough new worker bees to properly start the colony off in Spring. Best to leave them where they are until May.)

British honey bees are generally docile. They are bred that way. They sting only under duress and that doesn't hurt very much anyway. Contrary to myth bees can sting multiple times as long as their barbed sting does not get stuck. In small insects and animals it doesn't; in our skin and clothes it does so it gets ripped out of their abdomen and the resulting damage kills them.

Bees are not a protected species at the moment, but they are in decline due to the spread of 'colony collapse disorder' in which whole hives suddenly die. Research shows this is caused by the single-cellular nosema parasite which is transferred by a parasitic mite called the varroa mite (think of something the size of a dinner plate adhering to your back, drilling a hole through your skin and living off your blood, and you get the idea). Anything that helps a colony will help your garden thrive and ensures a supply of British honey as well as British food crops.

 

Nexxo, how much would it cost me to hire you to follow me around everywhere as a mobile information repository?

 

They are protected by law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3562306.stm

 

I'm an aspiring beekeeper, hence I happen to know. We hope to start our first hive this Spring.

 

was thinking the same damn thing.

 

Hivemind.

 

Just a few friendly corrections and pointers on your grammar and punctuation. I've let a couple slide.

Kind regards,

The bit-tech grammatical society.

 

Is it wrong that the moment I read the title the Benny Hill theme and the image of someone being chased at x2 speed by a load of bees popped into my head?

 

hahahahaha sweet!

The black and yellow tards are in fact on the wane, they are losing their homing instinct and whole swarms/hives are dying out, worse still they are losing their instinct to swarm and function like a "busy buzzy bee" and we should be concerned as they are one of nature’s most active "vectors" pollinating flora all over the place and ensuring we have lots of nice oxygen to breathe...
Indeed it seems quite implausible that the doom of the stripey floaty wonders would affect us, however it would be quite noticeably 'unpleasant' without them than we could really imagine, and indeed our eco system is actually rather more delicate than most would believe. Some blame mobile phone signals for the sad state of affairs... so attaching a GPS to them won’t help in the slightest.

 

Your puns are terrible and you should feel terrible

Also, everyone's slightly off with their guesses as to which insect is the biggest douche. It's the giant hornet:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

As cracked astutely put it, "Nature is ****ing hardcore."

edit - although, the African bee listed further down the article is pretty formidable too:

 

I fear yellowjackets more than I do hornets*. Hornets keep themselves to themselves most of the time and are actually quite nice, I almost put my hand over one on my guitar neck and then preceded to drop said guitar and the guy didn't move an inch. The yellowjackets, on the other hand, are stripey little *******s.

(*This may not actually be true on account that hornets are freaking huge.)

 

Actually, one of the books i read is called HIVE . (NO it is not about bees)

And the AI in it happens to be called Hivemind xD