A swarm of bees landed on a car in Cardiff after the hive was taken over by a younger female bee. The swarm settled on the back of a white Seat parked in Bute Street and almost entirely covered the back window.
Luckily, local bee expert Phillip Henry was on hand to rescue the bees and take them to a more suitable location. It's understood the Queen bee had taken her followers off after her daughter kicked her out of the original hive.
Mr Henry, 45, is the founder and project coordinator at thehoneycombcooperative which aims to improve the environment in Cardiff and beyond. He arrived on Wednesday afternoon (May 10) to gently coax the bees into a crate and take them away to a place of safety.
A swarm of bees also landed on a Mini in Duffryn, Newport on Wednesday afternoon. Most swarms occur on warm sunny days from May to the end of July.
Bee keepers have a saying which goes: "A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly." It means the later in the year it is, the less time there will be for bees to collect pollen from flowers in blossom.
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