Bee swarms blamed on amateur beekeepers
Published: 16 Jul 12 10:20 CET | Print version
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Inexperienced beekeepers who have failed to appropriately tend to hives in Stockholm are being blamed by experts for the recent swarms that have plagued the city.
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“Many new keepers haven’t thought of it. They think that the swarming season is over and so they go on holiday without providing the controlled supervision they should be,” said Karolina Lisslö of hive management firm Bee Urban to the TT news agency.
On Friday afternoon, shoppers and pedestrians were terrorized for three hours after one cluster of bees made a make-shift nest on the windows of the H&M headquarters in downtown Stockholm.
The bee-plague continued on Saturday when Södermalm pedestrians felt the sting as a second hum caused chaos in a neighbourhood in Stockholm's southern district.
Bee Urban, a company that leases and manages 27 bee hives around the capital, claims that their bees have not been responsible for the weekend swarms.
“We have frequent and regular inspections and our queens have their wings clipped,” she said.
When the hives become crowded, the bees choose a new queen and when she hatches, the old queen leaves the hive along with 3,000-5,000 bees in search of a new home.
When experienced bee breeders notice traces of a queen cell, they can divide the colony in order to avoid swarms.
“We make an artificial swarm and add a queen with clipped wings. We don’t want to get the call saying that there’s a swarm in the NK clock,” she told TT, referring to the landmark timepiece that towers 25 metres above central Stockholm.
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Beside, the bees are harmless, no one was actually stung? They are not out to harm people, hunt them down, bees much prefer flowers. So no one was actually terrorised. They are only looking for a new home and a beekeeper somewhere, novice or expert has lost some of their bees and learnt a lesson worth between 1-2000kr.
The only thing highlighted here are peoples phobias and complete lack of knowledge.
Wasps on the other hand ... evil buggers.
Now why isn't that a surprise?
DIY many things are an absolute menace. Try growing grapes in my district and they'll almost take a contract out on you. Utterly irresponsible DIY'ers can potentially put at risk $billions in wine crops.
Why would someone else growing grapes put at risk a whole industry?
Mainly because of improper or non-existent disease control which means professionals have to take more extensive and expensive methods which in turn creates problems for the "organically grown people"
It's quite complicated but very real. Same applies to stone fruit orchards.