Swarm of bees claim woman’s bicycle

A swarm of relocating bees in southern Sweden chose to leave an overcrowded hive to squat on a bicycle parked on a central square in Kristianstad.


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Passers-by witnessed how bees were swarming around a bicycle at Kristianstad square Södertorg. “Then the Queen arrived and they started to come in droves after that,” said Jan Ekdala, who witnessed to the event.

Ekdala watched as the bees started swarming over the bike, literally covering parts of it. “In only five minutes it was a gigantic bee-swarm,” he said.


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Ekdala said that watching what was going on he became increasingly pleased that it wasn’t his bicycle that the bees had chosen. “It would have been too large a number of stowaways to be able to use the bike,” he said.