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BreakingNews.ie
10 hours ago
- BreakingNews.ie
People flee in fright as giant ball of bees swarm traffic lights in Limerick City
Limerick City and County Council said it was investigating how best to deal with a swarm of bees that engulfed a light shrouds at a pedestrian-crossing junction in Limerick City Centre on Friday. The bees are understood to have swarmed the pedestrian lights to follow and protect their queen. Advertisement Some have suggested the Queen and her swarm took up residency at the light structure after being possibly discommoded from their hive following a thunder storm overnight. Persons were reported to have fled in fright when the swarm grew into a giant ball of bees Friday afternoon. The swarm is located at the junction of Catherine Street and Roche's Street. A passerby said: 'People were enjoying their coffees and the fine weather outside the cafes on Roche's Street and then everyone was going bananas, because inside on the lights there is a queen bee and the bees are all swarming inside it. Advertisement 'Everyone was avoiding the bees on the street - it was nuts. It's at the junction of Catherine Street and Roche's Street.' 'Once they are swarming around the Queen they won't harm you, so to speak, as they're too engrossed in the Queen, but if you go up to them and start annoying them then you might be in trouble, but that would be your own fault,' the man said. Ireland Man who drove with Lidl manager on car bonnet afte... Read More 'I believe a beekeeper is being called, I literally saw people running away scared and screaming, it looks like something out of a movie. 'A lot of motorists were stopping in traffic looking at it and all their windows were being wound up because the bees could, I suppose, get into your car. A spokesman for Limerick City and County Council said: 'We are assessing the situation to decide what action needs to be taken.' A Council spokesman said the Council had also reported the matter to - an online resource to contact a beekeeper which describes itself as 'Ireland's honeybee rescue network'.
BBC News
5 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Telford beekeeper gets free Greggs coffee after rescuing high street shops
A beekeeper has come to the aid of a row of shops that were closed because of a swarm of bees and was rewarded with a free coffee from Emms, from Priorslee Honey in Telford, said he got the call from another shop on Market Street, in Oakengates, on said it appeared the bees had left a nest and were attempting to set up a new colony, but once he had captured the queen they all peacefully followed her into a Emms is on a list of swarm collectors set up by the British Beekeepers Association and said once the street was clear someone from Greggs came out to offer him the drink as a thank you. The staff member told him they had enjoyed their 20-minute break, he said, but were grateful the bees had gone."It was mostly about keeping people safe," he said, adding that no-one had been like this are not unusual, but Mr Emms said it was rare to find bees swarming near shops, rather up a tree or in someone's garden. He said swarming typically occurred when a surplus queen bee leaves a hive with part of the colony to set up a new one somewhere beekeeper, who sells his own honey from nearby Priorslee, said when bees did this they had "nothing to defend so tend not to be too aggressive". Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
