Unusual shoppers swarm to Primark for its honey deals
SURPRISED shoppers were met by a swarm of bees outside Primark in Derby.
The insects converged on the window of the shop in Cornmarket yesterday on their way to find a new home.
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The bees knees: Fly-by visitors to the Primark store.
Each summer, bees leave their hives together to find a new place to live. This allows the old hive to be taken over by a newly-born female bee, who will become the queen and build a new colony.
In this way, bees reproduce and expand in numbers.
Tony Spacey, of Littleover Apiaries, said: "Nobody is quite sure what the trigger is that makes them leave the hive. They swarm every summer, even when it's bad weather."
A spokesman for Derby City Council said pest control had visited the shop and given its staff contact numbers for local beekeepers, who are understood to have removed the insects.
Comments
by Chris, Derby
Friday, July 03 2009, 10:24AM
“Good to see the Council called on local bee keepers. Life on earth depends very much on the existence of bees, without them there would be no pollination and crops would fail and the world's food supply would die. The numbers of bees are falling and the the United Nations is involved with the protection of bees as the numbers have fallen due to disease and swarm failures.”