A nature reserve visitor got more than she bargained for when a bee colony’s matriarch followed her home.
A swarm of bees followed their trapped queen inside the trunk of Carol Howarth’s Mitsubishi Outlander for two days straight. When a queen bee changes hives, the colony is known to follow. So when 68-year-old Howarth was driving back from a local nature reserve and stopped in Haverfordwest, west Wales, she noticed thousands of tiny hitchhikers – all 20,000 of them – attached to the back of her car.
The local beekeepers’ association was called along with a few rangers to see if the situation could be controlled. Click here to read the entire article.
Source: www.mashable.com
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