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Feral Bees
Biology: Unlike most insects, honey bees remain active throughout the winter with honey produced from the nectar of flowers providing plenty of food during the colder months. Honey bees are social insects and create
elaborate nests, or hives, containing up to 20,000 individuals during the summer months. When threatened, honey bees will swarm out and attack with their stingers to drive the enemy away, but generally as they
forage around your garden, they are quite harmless and will only sting if they accidently become caught in clothing. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small
larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees and begins the pupal stage. After another week, it will
emerge an adult bee.
Control: Since bees are highly beneficial to the environment and are important for the pollination of many plant species, bees should not be killed and nests should be left undisturbed whenever possible. Pest
Solution works with local bee keepers for the removal of swarms rather than destroying such an important insect. We will only consider destroying a nest or swarm if there is a high risk to public health or safety
(such as in a school, hospital etc or near to people who are allergic to bee stings) and all other options have been exhausted.
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Flying Insects Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge
- Chatteris
- Ely
- Huntingdon
- March
- Market Deeping
- Oundle
- Peterborough
- Ramsey
- Soham
- St Neots
- Whittlesey
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Flying Insects Essex
- Basildon
- Benfleet
- Bishops Stortford
- Braintree
- Brentwood
- Canvey Island
- Chelmsford
- Clacton
- Colcester
- Great Dunmow
- Halstead
- Harlow
- Harwich
- Leigh on sea
- Maldon
- Rayleigh
- Rochford
- Saffron Walden
- Southend
- Stansted
- Thorpe Bay
- Tiptree
- Walton on Naze
- Westcliff on Sea
- Witham
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Flying Insects Norfolk
- Acle
- Aylsham
- Dereham
- Diss
- Downham Market
- Fakenham
- Gorleston
- Great Yarmouth
- Holt
- Hunstanton
- Kings Lynn
- North Walsham
- Norwich
- Sheringham
- Stalham
- Swaffham
- Thetford
- Watton
- Wisbech
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Flying Insects Suffolk
- Aldeburgh
- Beccles
- Brandon
- Bungay
- Bury St Edmunds
- Clare
- Eye
- Felixstowe
- Framlingham
- Harleston
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lakenheath
- Lavenham
- Lowestoft
- Mildenhall
- Needham Market
- Newmarket
- Saxmundham
- Southwold
- Stowmarket
- Sudbury
- Wickham Market
- Woodbridge
- Yoxford
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