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Happy faces have dropped in recent months as they reached Hereford Museum and found that the bees were not at home.
However, don’t despair, our pollen gathering friends are back.
The observation hive at the museum in Broad Street has been a great favourite with all ages for many years however last year the bees became unwell and felt that they needed a break.
The new and vigorous inhabitants of the hive arrived to great acclaim last week and have now settled in well.
The bees were accompanied by David Parsons, Treasurer of Herefordshire beekeepers, who had been caring for the bees since early June.
David said: “The bees now living at the museum have come from Newton Farm. They descended on a children’s play area at Broxash Drive and I was asked to collect them.”
Having collected the bees in a small hive, David then took them home and gave them a fresh new hive with new frames and Beeswax foundation.
They were fed sugar syrup to encourage them to build up new clean combs ready for the Queen to start laying her eggs and to store food to feed the young larvae. The swarm soon started to develop.
They have had a health check and been treated for mites and are now enthralling visitors at the museum. Why not come and visit them and spot the Queen bee and her attendants or watch them performing their “waggle dance ”?
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm (closing at 4 pm on Sundays.) Admission is free. The summer exhibition has opened in the art gallery and there is plenty for all the family to do in the museum.
For more information contact Heritage Services on 01432 260692, herefordmuseums@Herefordshire.gov.uk or check out the website at www.herefordshire.gov.uk (click on Leisure and then Museums.)
BEE HAPPY, THE BEES ARE BACK!
Happy faces have dropped in recent months as they reached Hereford Museum and found that the bees were not at home.
However, don’t despair, our pollen gathering friends are back.
The observation hive at the museum in Broad Street has been a great favourite with all ages for many years however last year the bees became unwell and felt that they needed a break.
The new and vigorous inhabitants of the hive arrived to great acclaim last week and have now settled in well.
The bees were accompanied by David Parsons, Treasurer of Herefordshire beekeepers, who had been caring for the bees since early June.
David said: “The bees now living at the museum have come from Newton Farm. They descended on a children’s play area at Broxash Drive and I was asked to collect them.”
Having collected the bees in a small hive, David then took them home and gave them a fresh new hive with new frames and Beeswax foundation.
They were fed sugar syrup to encourage them to build up new clean combs ready for the Queen to start laying her eggs and to store food to feed the young larvae. The swarm soon started to develop.
They have had a health check and been treated for mites and are now enthralling visitors at the museum. Why not come and visit them and spot the Queen bee and her attendants or watch them performing their “waggle dance ”?
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm (closing at 4 pm on Sundays.) Admission is free. The summer exhibition has opened in the art gallery and there is plenty for all the family to do in the museum.
For more information contact Heritage Services on 01432 260692, herefordmuseums@Herefordshire.gov.uk or check out the website at www.herefordshire.gov.uk (click on Leisure and then Museums.)