Bees nest in car at Edinburgh Airport car park
04.07.09
An unfortunate family returned from holiday and found not one but 3,000 bees living under the bonet of their car, the Evening News reports. The swarm made their home in their green Volvo when it was left in Edinburgh Airport's short-stay car park during the family's holiday.
Beekeeper Nigel Hurst, from Livingston, was called out to the unusual situation when the shocked parents and their two children arrived back from Italy to find the car cordoned off and swarming with the bees. He told the newspaper: ‘I've never heard of them nesting in a car before. It's rather unusual. We found a nice, neat swarm hanging off the radiator. We used a brush to get them into a straw skep, which is a kind of basket. It took about an hour to solve the problem.’
‘It's probably a good job the family didn't drive off because starting the car up might have panicked the bees and they might have become angry.'
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