Bee rescue in Northamptonshire village as 40,000 bees set up home in chimney
Our reporters Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe are on the scene of the recovery of 40,000 bees from a chimney in Mawsley, near Kettering.
Northamptonshire bee rescue
Key Events
- Follow our reporters Josh and Nish on a very special bee rescue
- The bees will be removed using specialist equipment – a type of bee vacuum – to keep them alive so they can be transferred to a safer place.
- Experts have been using scaffolding on the chimney to access the location where the bees were found by the homeowners.
- The vacuum has been attached to the top of the chimney. Once the expert are confident that they have removed most of the bees, a bricklayer will crack the top off to remove the honeycomb and any stragglers
- The bees have been vacuumed out and now the honey comb will be extracted
- Josh Widdicombe has dropped his phone down the chimney
- Phone recovered - but covered in honey
- Breaking news regarding chimney status
- The ‘chimney’ is ornamental
- The extraction has been safely completed
- The Bees will now be transferred to the farm
Rebecca, the owner of the property noticed the presence of bees in her home some 6-8 weeks ago.
The bees had got into the house and into their bedrooms, so she called out George and Mark who have brought a piece of specialist equipment - a vaccum with a wooden boxed attacked to it, with a specially fitted mesh to protect the bees once they’re inside.
The vacuum itself is set to a very low power so its purpose is less suction and more a mild draft that, according to George “tickles” them in.
George and Mark have ten hives that they keep on a farm near Irthlingborough. All the hives have been rescued from people's homes, instead of killing them they rehome the bees.
George and Mark Vincent from Pest force Northampton have been called out.
They are pest controllers who are also beekeepers in their spare time
There's a hive that our experts believe to have around 40,000 bees in it is stuck inside the chimney in a family home on the outskirts of Kettering.
Our reporter Josh Widdicombe is on the scene
