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   A queen bee got trapped in the back of a 4×4 – so her dedicated hive chased the vehicle for TWO DAYS. 
   
   48 hours of bee-related nightmare. 
   
   The swarm of around 20,000 sparked chaos when their queen got stuck in a car boot. 
   
   EgyptAir Crash: Human remains point to an explosion on flight MS804However it took five different beekeepers, park rangers and passers-by to coax them off into a cardboard box, only for the wind to blow it off the car and the queen go back to the silver Mitsubishi Outlander’s boot. 
   
   Roger Burns of Pembrokeshire Beekeepers then says the car’s owner returned and drove away with the queen unknowingly trapped in the back, resulting in the swarm taking up the chase – even being spotted on the car’s boot the next day. 
   
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   The swarm was around 20,000 bees (Picture: Mercury) 
   
   Roger, a 65-year-old retired doctor, said: ‘We think the queen had been attracted to something in the car, perhaps something sweet, and had got into a gap on the boot’s wiper blade or perhaps the hinge. 
   
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   ‘The swarm of around 20,000 had followed her and were sat around on the boot of the car. I brought over a cardboard box and carefully brushed them into there as quickly as possible as I was aware it was a big swarm in the middle of the high street. 
   
   Brothers who grew up to be sisters after coming out as trans at the same time’I got about 15 or 20 stings for my trouble. I then left the cardboard box on the roof while we waited for the last few hundred bees to leave the boot but then a gust of wind blew it off and the queen fled back to the boot again. 
   
   ‘Unfortunately I had to go to dinner so another beekeeper took up the watch however eventually the car owner returned and drove off without realising the queen was still hidden in the back. 
   
   ‘I think the owner must have been a bit scared of the swarm that was hanging around and just wanted to get away without realising they were attracted the car because of the queen. 
   
   ‘We were left with a swarm of queen-less bees in the box and then heard that the same car was spotted the very next day with a swarm all over the boot, still chasing it.’ 
   
   Roger added: ‘I have been beekeeping for 30 years and I have never seen a swarm do that. It is natural for them to follow the queen but it is a strange thing to see and quite surprising to have a car followed for two days. It was quite amusing.’ 
   
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   Thousands of bees left a town buzzing after swarming on to the boot of a car. 
   
   The insects are believed to have swarmed on to the back of a silver Mitsubishi Outlander after their queen got stuck in its boot. 
   
   Tom Moses, a ranger at the Pembrokeshire coast national park, noticed a “brown splodge” on the back of the car after the owner parked it in Haverfordwest to do some shopping. When he looked closer, he realised it was a swarm of bees – thought to number more than 10,000. 
   
   Moses, 41, said: “I have never seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual and then you go and take a closer look, it is quite spectacular. 
   
   Facebook Twitter Pinterest A beekeeper waiting for the bees to get in the box. Photograph: Tom Moses/PA 
   
   “They were packed in quite tight and covered a couple of square feet. There was a lot of buzzing and moving. 
   
   “It was interesting to see such a natural phenomenon but there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried of the bees and the people passing by, their children stopping to look at it. It was the middle of a town and outside a pub. I thought that someone might do something stupid.” 
   
   Moses called the Pembrokeshire Beekeepers’ Association after his discovery on Sunday and two beekeepers helped remove the swarm by luring the bees into a cardboard box. 
   
   Moses, of Haverfordwest, spent about three hours looking after the bees – and was stung five times on the head, neck and behind the ears. 
   
   He said: “My stings are a bit itchy, but they are not too bad now. I am pleased it all worked out and I was able to help. People need to realise that bees are valuable things and they need to be looked after and not hurt.” ||||| "It was spectacular. I was driving through when I spotted the big brown splodge,” he said. 
   
   "A lot of people were really amazed by it, cars were slowing down and people were taking pictures of it. 
   
   "I was a little bit concerned, with it being in the middle of town outside a pub, that someone might do something stupid and get hurt or do something stupid and hurt the bees," he said. 
   
   "As I drove past I noticed this big brown splodge on the back of a car. 
   
   "I had seen swarms before settle on things like this but never one as large as this. It was quite a thing to see - certainly a 'wow' moment. 
   
   "I was really worried that someone could get hurt by them or that someone might damage them in their bid to clear the car so I stopped to help out. 
   
   "It is fair to say I had a sting in the tale - I was stung to my head, neck and the back of my ears. But I took some anti-histamines and they are not too bad now.” 
   
   However, after returning to her car, Mrs Howarth drove home believing the problem had been resolved, only to discover on Monday morning that the swarm had followed her and were again covering the car.
target: – A woman visiting a nature reserve in Wales over the weekend accidentally took home an estimated 20,000 bees. Carol Howarth, 65, stopped in Haverfordwest to do some shopping on her way home from the reserve when a swarm of bees descended on her car. "I have never seen that many bees in one spot," local park ranger Tom Moses tells the Guardian. "They were packed in quite tight and covered a couple of square feet." Fearing the bees or a person might get hurt, he called the Pembrokeshire Beekeepers' Association and watched for three hours as beekeepers gathered the bees in a cardboard box, reports the Telegraph. "It's safe to say I got stung quite a few times," Moses tells the Milford Mercury. But the bee tale wasn't over. By the time Howarth had finished her shopping, the issue seemed resolved and she drove home. The next day, however, the swarm returned. Howarth called the beekeepers for backup and the bees were cleared away for a second, and, so far, final, time. The leading theory is that the insects were only following their queen, who may have gotten stuck in Howarth's Mitsubishi Outlander at the nature reserve. "We think the queen had been attracted to something in the car, perhaps something sweet, and had got into a gap on the boot’s wiper blade or perhaps the hinge," a beekeeper tells Metro, though a queen bee was never found. "It is natural for them to follow the queen but it is a strange thing to see and quite surprising to have a car followed for two days." (A swarm of stinging bees descended on a mosque.)