Tom Moses, who works as a ranger at Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, was driving by when he happened upon the raid.
“Driving through town noticed this going on outside the Lower Three Crowns and couldn’t resist getting involved!” he
wrote in a pun-filled post on his Facebook page.
He was worried someone might do something “stupid.”
Bees are already dying from habitat loss and terrible farming practices like pesticide use he reckoned. He was also worried whether someone would pour boiling water to get rid of them.
So, he called in reinforcements—neighbourhood folks at the Pembrokeshire Beekeepers Association.
There were several stinging incidents like the “drunk bloke from pub went and swept a load of bees off car with hand looking for queen, got stung loads pfffft…..,” he wrote on Facebook.
You may think that the story has ended. Wait . . .
. . . the next morning, Howarth found that the bees had returned.
So once again, out came the beekeepers. Her Outlander was free of bees that day only by 6 p. m. that day. However, nobody knows the fate of the queen bee.
According to Moses, members of colonies often follow their queen bee if she moves hives. And queens move hives if the hives are disturbed by humans or if another queen bee arrives.
