A shop owner probably isn’t buzzing after they were forced to shut because of a huge swarm of bees gathered right outside.
Stunned shoppers raised the alarm after thousands of bees descended on an area of scaffolding in front of the shoe store in south-east Wales today.
The problem was so severe, the bosses at Scandia had no choice but to close their doors in Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
Meanwhile, beekeeping brothers Matt and Kit Newell have got to work on containing the creatures after they were alerted to the issue.
Pictures of the bees flying around outside the shop while they try to catch them all are enough to make the fearful among us grimace just a tad.
The images show just how many had decided to flock to the town centre for a day out.
Quite where they were trying to get to, we might never know.
Brothers Matt and Kit run Hive Mind Mead & Brew Co in nearby Caldicot – and say they have been receiving ‘many calls a day’.
Matt was able to spot the queen among the thousands of bees before attracting the others into the hive.
Kit said: ‘We then place this queen cage into a beehive, which we place at the base of the cluster of bees.
‘The pheromones from the queen attract all the bees into the hive.
‘This can take several hours as about half of the bees will be off scouting for a new home, so we usually leave the hive in situ until dark when they will have all returned.’
Matt said that the bees will now be looked after at their meadery where they will grow and develop into a full hive.
He said: ‘After spending some time observing them, we will take them to one of our apiaries nestled in the Wye Valley.
‘If the weather is good this year, they may produce a crop in July, which will mean we can make delicious mead and honey beer from the honey made by bees of Chepstow.’
Matt and Kit say this May has seen a particularly high number of swarms due to the bees waking up early during the mild March.
Someone who is buzzing is Kate Middleton after she was seen smiling for World Bee Day in a new photo yesterday.
But you can bet the visitors at a Cornish castle earlier this week won’t share her excitement after they were forced to flee the attraction when a swarm of bees stormed the site.
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