Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Mystery Of The Giant Honeycomb Built In A Wood By Thousands Of Bees In Freezing February

Sweet success: The incredible honeycomb built by bees despite the
freezing weather at Holly Hill, Fareham, Hampshire


From The Daily Mail:

If you go down to these woods today you are sure of a sweet surprise - bees swarming in sub-zero temperatures around a giant honeycomb.

Even Sir David Attenborough would be stumped by the discovery as thousands of bees have constructed the comb in an oak tree at Holly Hill Country Park, Fareham, Hants.

The hardy workers have created the giant two-foot long structure and have been spotted by walkers and winter wildlife spotters more used to seeing deer and badgers at this time of year.

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