Park ranger and beekeepers help
remove thousands of bees after queen was thought trapped in back of a car in
Haverfordwest
Press Association
Tuesday 24 May
201617.37 BST
Last modified on Wednesday 25 May 201609.57 BST
Thousands of bees left a town
buzzing after swarming on to the boot of a car.
The insects are believed to have
swarmed on to the back of a silver Mitsubishi Outlander after their queen got
stuck in its boot.
Tom Moses, a ranger at the
Pembrokeshire coast national park, noticed a “brown splodge” on the back of the
car after the owner parked it in Haverfordwest to do some shopping. When he
looked closer, he realised it was a swarm of bees – thought to number more than
10,000.
Moses, 41, said: “I have never
seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual and then you go and take a
closer look, it is quite spectacular.
“They were packed in quite tight and covered a
couple of square feet. There was a lot of buzzing and moving.
“It was interesting to see such a
natural phenomenon but there were a lot of people around and I was a bit
worried of the bees and the people passing by, their children stopping to look
at it. It was the middle of a town and outside a pub. I thought that someone
might do something stupid.”
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