Stupidity of members of the public

[Hivemaker.]

we have a similar problem in central london with the congestion charge, you get a request from Met police to go to a swarm in regents street etc and when you get there its gone and you have a a bill of £11.50 for entering the central congestion zone ( £25 from 2020 for non EURO 6 diesels and £12.50 for withing the north circular) )

Will the police/GLA wave that charge , no, even though the may have called you out

Play the same game... you have a basic call out charge, say £200, whether the swarm is there when you get there or not, if it is, charge the basic call out charge, plus so much an hour on top.

 

[Michael Palmer]

Karma's a b****

Her Karma ran over her Dogma!

 

[Brigsy]

Hats off!

 

[Gilberdyke John]

One of our swarm collectors went out this afternoon to the local High Street and caught a swarm on a bus shelter then put it into a Nuc, police taped off the area and the nuc was left to settle to be collected at dusk, every going well

Just heard from the local press that a woman who is a vegan and who thinks beekeeper keeping bees is cruel has crossed the police tape line picked up the nuc and removed the roof to free the bees, she has been badly stung , dropping the nuc, the frames and all bees spilled out....now total mayhem in local High Street

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Care in the community isn't working.

 

[Plenty of honey]

A waste of good stings!!! theres always one moron, isn't there!!

 

[beeno]

A waste of good stings!!! theres always one moron, isn't there!!

It runs into millions!

 

[Eyeman]

we have a similar problem in central london with the congestion charge, you get a request from Met police to go to a swarm in regents street etc and when you get there its gone and you have a a bill of £11.50 for entering the central congestion zone ( £25 from 2020 for non EURO 6 diesels and £12.50 for withing the north circular) )

If they want you tell them to send a squad car. If they want you quickly tell them to put the 'blues and twos' on.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

There are simply certain places where a box cannot be left alone for public safety.

To quote Captain Jack Aubrey, you always have to choose the lesser of two weevils.

What's worse; a box in a taped-off area mopping up all the stragglers or 50 or so stragglers smelling but not finding their swarm and flying around in ever increasing circles looking for a home?

I know what I think is safer.

CVB

 

[BeeJayBee]

To quote Captain Jack Aubrey, you always have to choose the lesser of two weevils.

What's worse; a box in a taped-off area mopping up all the stragglers or 50 or so stragglers smelling but not finding their swarm and flying around in ever increasing circles looking for a home?

What's worse; a box in a taped-off area mopping up all the stragglers or several hundreds of queenless stragglers smelling but not finding their swarm and flying around in ever increasing circles stinging pedestrians and getting trampled into the pavement?

That ^^^^ is my experience of what happens when a beekeeper "collects" a "swarm" from shrubs adjacent to a pavement and takes a box of bees away within minutes of arriving, and then won't respond to either the local council or the householder when called back to finish the job.

If an area is taped off members of the public can make an informed choice whether to cross the tape or not, and they do that quite frequently too!

 

[birdsandbees]

What a Dozy Bint!

I like to give bees time to get in too! I hate leaving anyone behind even if they do eventually return to whence they came.

I like the idea of a police escort to collect a swarm