Bee swarm invades post box in village
Bees’ mailbox A SWARM of 20,000 bees set up home in a village post box, leaving locals too scared to mail their letters.
Local beekeeper Rodney Harris, 75, was eventually able to flush them out and was stung for his efforts.
He used sugary water, lemongrass and almond oil to entice the bees into a box at St Day, Cornwall, then took them home.
“If you don’t shift them quickly it’s amazing how much work they can do,” said the retired engineer, who keeps 18 colonies.
“Humans are a bunch of thickheads compared with bees. This lot were starting to become territorial – and anyone in their flight path would really get it.”
Village sub-postmaster Geoff Nankivell said: “No customers were stung and our service had no delays.” An urban fox