First swarm of the season

Kind of…

I received a message this afternoon saying that there was a large swarm by the road in our nearest town. I didn’t see the message immediately (I was fighting weeds at the time), but when I asked about it later the swarm had already disappeared into someone’s chimney. Looks like they’re in for a less-than-pleasant surprise tomorrow morning.

This isn’t an uncommon occurrence and makes me think that perhaps it would be a sociable thing to do to offer to site bait hives at a few places (in peoples’ gardens, say) around the town from April to the end of July. Might save a few people ending up with an expensive bill for removing them later on.

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