May 30 night at ten o'clock, the last day of the holiday, from his hometown of Shengzhou rushed back to Hangzhou Liu Huanming, once into her rented room in Jiangcun Xingda Court was stunned - the room a lot of buzzing bees in the fly, a lot of the direct stop in the landlord uncle left the side of the double-door closet, directly in the inside of a home, The bees in the room are not only the bees in the room, but also in the room. "At that time simply do not know how many bees in the cabinet, it feels like there are thousands of hundreds of, cabinet doorway side of 7, 8 cm thick, nearly 20 cm long a, densely packed are bees , scalp are numb."
Lady Liu cried on the spot, late at night knocked on the door of the landlord's grandparents, said the matter, but there is nothing we can do, "at that time to the fire called, but recently asked to catch the hornets too many people to line up for several days before the line." Liu Huanming said, "I had to turn to my aunt who lives nearby for help overnight, and went to borrow a room for two days first."
Where exactly did these bees come from?
Miss Liu calmed down and thought about it, it is estimated that the Dragon Boat Festival vacation for three days, she opened the window to get some air, but even the screen window also forgot to close, it attracted the bees, "I went between the closet also sprayed a little bit of perfume, there may be a floral scent attracted the bees."
Many people who saw her WeChat circle of friends consoled her, while offering advice, have helped find beekeepers and people who can handle bees.
"There's a friend in Ningbo who has kept bees, and he said the ones that nest in my house are native bees, and their stings are not poisonous." Liu Minghuan said that there are also those who directly told her to keep bees and wait for honey.
More pugnacious is the landlord 74-year-old Jiang Dabo, May 31 early in the morning directly into the room to take care of these small bees, "I will close the windows and doors, took the spray first sprayed, wait until the bees are almost dead, went in and cleaned up a little." Uncle Jiang told the money reporter, while opening the closet pointing to a piece of the cabinet door right in the middle of the place, penciled in, said, "At that time there has been a piece of egg-sized hive, I took it down together and hung it on the tree in the yard."
The money reporter went to the edge of the tree penciled, this piece of the hive is really the size of an adult's palm, and under the tree is a pile of already dead bee bodies, "then swept half a dustpan, probably more than a pound."
While the hive is gone, but the bees still refused to leave Miss Liu's home, closed windows outside more than 30 bees flying at the same time, always looking for routes that can enter the house, and even more so that Miss Liu is panicked, the landlord, Jiang Dabo, from the window pointing to the air-conditioning and a piece of the shadow under the edge of the window, said: "I estimate that the queen bee is not yet dead, and these bees regathered to want to build a nest."
What about this? When will Ms. Liu be able to go home?
The Qian Daily reporter found the vice president of the Chinese Beekeeping Society, Zhejiang University, College of Animal Science, Professor Hu Fuliang, he said, for such a situation, can be observed for two or three days, if the queen bee died, after two days of the bees will be automatically dispersed, if the queen bee is still in the new hive will be gathered together again.
So is it the smell of perfume that attracts the bees? "This season coincides with the splitting of the native bees, or Chinese honey bees, and the new colonies are looking for a place to nest, and they will send out a few teams of worker bees as an advance party to look around for a suitable dwelling, somewhere covered like a cave, dark, and where the bees will feel safe, such as an old closet."
When the advance party returns to the queen bee and reports back with a dance about how they have sought out several places, all the worker bees can come and vote on where to go, "The same dance is done to vote, those who voted for location A do one kind of dance, those who voted for location B do the other, and whichever location has the most worker bees voting for it chooses where to make their home. " Isn't there a sense of immediacy that the bee colony is dancing collectively in a square dance? Prof. Hu said, "Bees are a very intelligent and democratic animal." They may also send another advance team to each candidate site to see which team comes back with more bees, relatively this site is safer, "but this method will take longer." Prof. Hu said.
He reckons some of the bees in the advance party smelled the perfume, and then the swarm voted en masse to choose this old closet to make their home.
So what now? With the help of staff at Jiangcun Garden, the neighborhood where Xingda Yuan is located, a beekeeper was found, who promised that if the hive was found to be getting bigger and bigger in a few more days, she would come and collect the bees and find them a new place to call home.