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There is zero cost to the people that are chosen. I imagine they will have many interested.

Most training is done via mentors. I assume they'll have a master beekeeper being paid some nice money to come and train.

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Bees probably do well in suburban areas, where we don't all grow the same crop for 2000 acres, nor use insecticides.

I lived in a flat in London where someone kept bees on the roof of the block.

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It appears as if some businesses keep Bee hives as part of their enviromental strategy, might be why CCC's company is training staff?

Asked where the bees will be taken, he said: "They will go to whoever wants a hive. We need bees in London as much as we need them on the countryside. Bees are a keystone species."

It is common for honeybees to swarm and set up a new hive during the spring time.

The colony was later safely moved across the road to the roof of Westminster cathedral, where it will be looked after by beekeepers.

It is not known where the bees originally came from, but several shops in the local area do have their own hives.

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It appears as if some businesses keep Bee hives as part of their enviromental strategy, might be why CCC's company is training staff?

It is not known where the bees originally came from, but several shops in the local area do have their own hives.

Different areas manage the swarm list differently.

Some let anyone be on it and then people keep the swarms they collect.

Some BKA organise a rota by which they collect the swarms, nurse them for a bit until they are 100% viable and then sell them to new people wanting bees.

Bees are great but there has to be committee and time to deal with them. Poorly managed bees will cause more harm to the bees than gallons of pesticide.

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Bees are great but there has to be committee and time to deal with them. Poorly managed bees will cause more harm to the bees than gallons of pesticide.

Aren't bees sort of, you know, natural? Can't they look after themselves without a committee? Or are honey bees a product of man's artifice as with hens bred for fatness/eggs, or cows for prodigious and unnatural volumes of milk?

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Aren't bees sort of, you know, natural? Can't they look after themselves without a committee? Or are honey bees a product of man's artifice as with hens bred for fatness/eggs, or cows for prodigious and unnatural volumes of milk?

Perhaps the bees themselves form committees. I wouldn't put it past them.

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Aren't bees sort of, you know, natural? Can't they look after themselves without a committee? Or are honey bees a product of man's artifice as with hens bred for fatness/eggs, or cows for prodigious and unnatural volumes of milk?

This is an interesting point as BumbleBees make their own nest / hive and produce just enough honey for themselves to eat.

What do Honeybee's do if they are left to their own devices?

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Aren't bees sort of, you know, natural? Can't they look after themselves without a committee? Or are honey bees a product of man's artifice as with hens bred for fatness/eggs, or cows for prodigious and unnatural volumes of milk?

They have their own committees.

Yes they will manage absolutely fine BUT people do not like swarms of bees near them. That's the problem for poorly managed bees.

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They're not very good at beehiving themselves?

Swarming is their way of reproducing. It makes a new colony.

People just don't like seeing them in huge clouds whirling sounding like a lawnmower.

Or in their chimneys etc.

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When I was a kid in the 70s, older kids would tell you that a particular bumble-bee could be picked-up in your hands and would not sting you.

It had to be one with a red back-end, and a yellow stripe across the front of it's head. The stripe was where we thought it's nose was - if indeed bees have a nose - and they were known locally as "Yellow Nozzies".

I picked many of them up and was never stung.

Was this particular bee incapable of stinging, or would any bumble-bee behave this way and the colours were irrelevant?

Can any of the bee experts shed further light on this..?

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